Madeline Jarrett is a PhD candidate in systematic theology at Boston College. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2014 with majors in Theology and Psychology. After her undergraduate studies, Maddie participated in a year-long AmeriCorps service program based in Chicago, where she served full-time as the ESL Tutor, art teacher, and creative writing instructor at a Catholic elementary school. After her time in Chicago, Maddie moved to Boston to pursue theological studies at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry, where she earned her Master of Divinity in 2018. From 2018 to 2021, she had the honor of teaching theology and psychology and serving as the Theology Department Chair at Mount Alvernia High School in Newton, MA. Maddie is a 2020 recipient of the Archdiocese of Boston’s Excellence in Education Award and a 2023 recipient of Boston College’s Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.

Her research engages issues of theological anthropology and eschatology, particularly as they relate to temporality, joy, disability, agency, and subjectivity. Maddie has been published in Philosophy & Theology, Concilium, Political Theology, The Journal of Disability and Religion, and Commonweal Magazine.