Laura Pycock Kassar
Part-Time Professor | Faculty staff
E-mail : laura.pycock.kassar@ustpaul.ca
Profile
Laura Kassar has a master鈥檚 degree in Philosophy and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Religion Studies at the Institut d鈥櫭﹖udes religieuses, Universit茅 de Montr茅al. She has taught as a lecturer in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexualities program at UdeM as well as at the Institut d鈥櫭﹖udes religieuses. She is an active member of the 鈥淩eligions, F茅minismes et Genres鈥 research group within the R茅seau qu茅b茅cois en 茅tudes f茅ministes (R茅QEF). Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include contemporary philosophical hermeneutics, feminist biblical interpretation, environmental justice and materialities. In the summer of 2023, she was artist-in-residence at the Wallace Stegner House in Saskatchewan where she co-directed a 16 mm experimental documentary film.
Academia profile:
Ph.D. candidate, Religion Studies, Institut d鈥櫭﹖udes religieuses, Universit茅 de Montr茅al
M.A. Philosophy, Universit茅 de Montr茅al (2019)
B.A. Philosophy, University of Ottawa (2015)
Kassar, Laura. 2025. 芦 Reconsid茅rer la contamination : une 茅co-politique f茅ministe des eaux en Nombres 5, 11-3 禄, Recherches f茅ministes 38, 1 芦 Interpr茅ter, cr茅er et subvertir les textes religieux 禄, 93-110.
Pycock-Kassar, Laura and Olivier Roy-Turgeon. 2022. 鈥淭race Fossils, Tombs, and Time-Capsules: Uncovering Biblical Underlands with the Phenomenological Speleology of Robert Macfarlane,鈥 The Bible & Critical Theory, 1-22.