Linn Tonstad

Linn Tonstad (b.1978, Loma Linda, California) is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. She was born in California to Iraqi-Norwegian parents and raised in Norway until moving to the USA to pursue her university education. She joined the faculty in 2012 after teaching for a year at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, where she also served as a member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Religious Studies. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Lilly Fellow in theology at Valparaiso University. Her teaching interests include systematic theology, feminist and queer theology, philosophy of religion, and theological method. Professor Tonstad has made contributions to various journals, including Modern Theology, Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, and Conversations in Religion and Theology. She is currently completing her first book, provisionally titled “God and Difference: Experimental Trinitarian Theology.” She is a member of the American Academy of Religion.