Tina Beattie is Professor of Catholic Studies and Director of the Digby Stuart Research Centre for Religion, Society and Human Flourishing at the University of Roehampton in London. Her research interests are in the areas of Catholic theology, sacramentality, and gender, in conversation with Lacanian psychoanalysis and critical theory. Her most recent book is Theology after Postmodernity: Divining the Void—A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2014). She is now beginning a new research project on Catholic social teaching and maternal well-being.