Sarina Meyer

Thesis supervisor: Lorenzo DiTommaso

Research subject: Her doctoral research examines the ways that contemporary hero stories center a wide variety of positionalities, complicating and expanding frameworks for what it means to be heroic. She also studies the changes and continuities between the heroines of contemporary popular culture and their (lost) siblings from the past. Her recent publication recovers the obscured leadership of the heroines in the gospel resurrection narratives.

Sarina Odden Meyer (she/her) is a PhD student in the Religions and Cultures Department at Concordia University, Montreal. She has a BS in Psychology (University of Wisconsin-Madison), an MDiv (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary), and an MA in Religious Studies (McGill University). An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA, 2009; Canada, 2017) she was an Associate Pastor at Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, PA (part-time, 2007-2009), a stay-at-home mom for 10 years (2007-2017), and Pastor at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Beaconsfield, QC (2017-2023). Throughout all of these experiences, Sarina has centered equity, diversity, and inclusion, working on racial reconciliation in Pittsburgh, advocating for LGBTQ+ inclusion, and teaching Indigenous worldviews and recovered women’s histories.

Publications

Meyer, S.O. (2025). The heroines are in the details. Rediscovering the women in the resurrection narratives. Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, (Online First). 
https://doi.org/10.1177/09518207251367408