Rate My Professor Nathalia IMPERATORI-LEE

Dr. Imperatori-Lee authored influential books such as Cuéntame: Narrative in the Ecclesial Present (Orbis Books, 2018), which reorients Catholic ecclesiology toward historical ambiguity and marginalized narratives; Women and the Church: From Devil’s Gateway to Disciples (Paulist Press, 2024), an overview of feminist theology for undergraduates; and Bearers of an Idle Tale: Women’s Authority in the Credibility Economy (Paulist Press, 2025), stemming from her Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality. Her articles have been published in Theological Studies, The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and CTSA Proceedings, addressing theological mansplaining, complementarity's perils, Mariology in Latinx communities, and Amoris Laetitia. She contributed to America and Commonweal, served on the boards of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Academy of Catholic Theologians of the US, and spoke frequently at colleges, parishes, and panels on women in the church, appearing in media like CNN. After nearly two decades at Manhattan University, she became Associate Professor of Systematics at Fordham University in 2025.