Dr. Karen Zoppa

Title: Instructor (Collegiate)
Email: k.zoppa@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

After receiving her B.A. in Religious Studies at the University of Winnipeg, Karen Zoppa graduated from the University of Winnipeg/University of Manitoba Joint Masters Program in Religion for her dissertation on mythopoeism and imagination in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. 

She then received her B.Ed in English and History, and has enjoyed a rich secondary teaching career at the University of Winnipeg Collegiate. 

In 2018, she earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba for her dissertation on religion in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir. 

Her research focuses on philosophy in the critical theory of religion; deconstruction and contemporary culture;  and existentialism, especially in the works of Simone de Beauvoir and Jacques Derrida.

Publications:
Zoppa, Karen Elizabeth.  Playing the Scene of Religion: Beauvoir and Faith. Sheffield, U.K.: Equinox Publishing,  2021.