Writing
Peer Reviewed Articles:
Interviews + Essays:
“Rooting in Relationality: Considering Plant Consciousness at the Center for the Study of World Religions.” Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn/Winter 2023. https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/rooting-in-relationality/
"Delightfully Paradoxical: Finding Science at the Divinity School - A Conversation with Award-Winning Science Journalist Aaron Scott.” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, June 3, 2025. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/06/delightfully-paradoxical-finding-science-divinity-school
“Lifting the Green Veil with Vanessa Chakour: A Practitioner’s Perspective.” Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, July 11, 2025. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/07/11/lifting-green-veil-vanessa-chakour-practitioners-perspective
“The Service Tree: Exploring Boundaries and Release through Yew.” Sacred Warrior Blog. https://www.sacredwarrior.co/blog-archive/the-service-tree-exploring-boundaries-and-release-through-yew
Features:
Pintair, Olivia Q. 2025. “Asking Fear to Sleep: A Conversation with Ellayo.” Lullaby Machine, May 4, 2025. https://lullabymachine.com/essays/essay6
Blackwell, Jeffrey. 2025. “Thinking With Plants and Fungi: Celebrating the Voices of the More-Than-Human World.” Harvard Gazette, June 4, 2025. Accessed September 2, 2025. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/thinking-with-plants-and-fungi-celebrating-the-voices-of-the-more-than-human-world/
Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR). 2023. “Plant Consciousness Reading Group: A Conversation with Co-founders Rachael Petersen and Natalia Schwien.” Center for the Study of World Religions, July 24, 2023. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2023/07/24/plant-consciousness-reading-group-conversation-co-founders-rachael-petersen-and
Conference Papers:
“The Plant Delighteth: Plant Personhood in the Study of Western Esotericism.”
Program for the Evolution of Spirituality Conference on Ecological Spiritualities, Harvard Divinity School, April 2022, Cambridge, MA.
“Betwixt Earth and Heavens: On the Theological Inspiration for Robert Kirk’s The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies in the Works of Origen of Alexandria.”
Harvard University Celtic Colloquium, October 2022, Cambridge, MA.
“The Plant Delighteth: Plant Personhood in the Study of Western Esotericism.”
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2022, Denver, CO.
“Go Say Hi to a Tree.”
Explorations in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Research, hosted by Psychedelics and Spirituality, part of the Transcendence and Transformation Program, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, April 2023, Cambridge, MA.
“Eating Conscious Beings Consciously: Ethics in the Era of Plant Neurobiology.”
Higher Education and Creating a Climate-Friendly Food System, University of San Diego, November 2024, San Diego, CA.
“The Materialist Relic: Nonhuman Bodies in Zoological Museums.”
Panel: Going Beyond Human Death: Preserving, Mourning, and Keeping Relics of Animals, Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2024, San Diego, CA.
“A Consideration of Animal Art.”
Program for the Evolution of Spirituality Conference on Spirituality and the Arts, Harvard Divinity School, April 2025, Cambridge, MA.
“Introduction for Panel: ‘Rooted Resistance: Plants, Colonial Histories, Radical Futures.’”
Thinking with Plants & Fungi Initiative, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, May 2025, Cambridge, MA.
“‘Yew, Little Yew, You Are Conspicuous in Graveyards’: Plants in the Vocative—A Consideration of Buile Shuibhne in Conversation with Decolonial and Kinship Theory.”
To be presented at Harvard Celtic Languages & Literatures, 2025, Boston, MA.
“If You Give a Mouse a Human Brain: How Neural Chimeroids Reshape Brain Exceptionalism and Recall Mytho-Kinship.”
To be presented in the Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2025, Boston, MA.