Writer. Public Intellectual. Faith Leader.
Danielle Tumminio Hansen brings over twenty years of expertise to her work as a writer, public theologian, and faith leader. She is a three-time Ivy League graduate, a former lecturer at Yale and Tufts Universities, and the author of numerous works on the intersection of theology, trauma, women’s lives, and contemporary culture. She currently works as a professor at Emory University.
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Around the Fireplace is a gathering place for honest reflections on spirituality, trauma recovery, and the good life. This Substack explores what it means to live with curiosity, courage, and compassion—especially when life burns hot. Through stories that blend scholarship, faith, and the deeply personal, Danielle invites readers to sit by the fire, tend to the ashes, and find warmth in the questions that make us most human.
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Danielle Tumminio Hansen steps into the space of the unspeakable, weaving together first-person narrative, feminist discourse, and theology to understand why it’s so hard to talk about sexual violations and how to create opportunities for healing and justice.
In Conceiving Family, Danielle Tumminio Hansen offers a cutting edge interdisciplinary, international, intersectional analysis of what it means to be a family and community in the age of assisted reproduction.
Tumminio Hansen reflects upon the experience of teaching the first seminar of its kind on theology and the Harry Potter series at an Ivy League university with reflections on how to understand the books and their relationship to Christianity. At once accessible and insightful, God and Harry Potter at Yale encourages readers to think deeply about the beloved series in a fresh way.
