Education: B.A. in Religion and Black Studies, Swarthmore College, 2014

Interests: James Baldwin; Love Studies; Intellectual History; Religion, Literature, and Arts; African American Literature; Black Cultural Studies; Modern Religious Thought; Affect & Emotion; Audre Lorde; Fyodor Dostoevsky

Dissertation title: “Talk of Fire, Invisibility, and the Erotic: James Baldwin, African American Literature, and the Theological-Political Discourse of Active Love”

Committee: Joel Isaac (Chair), Richard Rosengarten, Sarah Hammerschlag, Kenneth Warren

External Links: 

• https://www.paulcatophd.com/ 
• https://black-studies.providence.edu/faculty/ 
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-cato-ph-d-30522236/