Stefanie Knauss has a background in Catholic Theology and English studies at the universities of Freiburg and Graz and is currently a researcher with the B. Kessler Foundation in Trent. Her main research interests are religions and the body, gender studies, and aesthetic theology. She is a member of the steering council of the Italian Women Theologians Network. She has edited L'enigma corporeità: sessualità e religione with A. Autiero (EDB 2010). Her new book published by Effatà, La saggia inquietudine: Il corpo nell'ebraismo, nel cristianesimo e nell'islam, is in print.