Emily Amos-Wood

MA Student

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

  • Ritual and pilgrimage studies
  • Material religion
  • Sacred space
  • Aesthetics, art, and architecture
  • Affect theory and embodied religiosity
  • Ethnography
  • Language and metaphor
  • Queer theory

Biography

Emily Amos-Wood is an MA student in the DSR. Her research at St. Joseph's Oratory in Montreal examines pilgrimage as a trope and means of studying the embodied historiography of ritual acts, materiality, and religious sensation and imagination in sacred space. She graduated with a BA in Religious Studies, Gender Studies, and English Literature from the University of Toronto in 2022.

Outside of scholarship, she writes fiction, poetry, and plays, works as a bookseller, and co-organizes the Toronto-based literary series Pack Animal.