Katharina von Kellenbach was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1960, studied Evangelical Theology in Berlin (West) and Goettingen and entered the graduate program in religion at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA in 1983. Her dissertation (1990) on Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings has been published with Scholars Press (now Oxford University Press) in 1994. She is currently an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland, a public liberal arts college in the United States.