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 Amy Panton

Assistant Professor of Practical Theology Teaching Stream

Education

  • PhD, Emmanuel College, 2024
  • ThM, Knox College, 2017
  • MTS, Knox College, 2013
  • BA, Queen’s University, 2003
  • MA in Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy (in progress), Martin Luther University College

Contact

Email: amy.panton@mail.utoronto.ca

Amy Panton (they/she) is Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Emmanuel College. Their teaching and research focus on Mad Studies, disability and neurodiversity, spiritual care, and theologies of mental health. Amy is also completing a Master’s in Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy at Martin Luther University College. Their recent work explores patient-authored asylum archives, and weaving together Mad Studies and Practical Theology.

Amy is the author of Soul Care for Self-Injury: Theological Reflection and Spiritual Care Strategies, Thy Sheltering Arms My Spirit Take: Praying the Hours with the Patients of Utica Asylum and Openings: Grounding Exercises for Students and Practitioners in Spiritual Care and Psychotherapy. They also serve as co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability.


Selected Publications

Fisher, Elizabeth, and Amy Elizabeth Panton. “Transformation & Resistance in the Interfaith Classroom: Reflections on Teaching in the Canadian Context.” The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching 2, no. 2 (May 28, 2021).

Panton, Amy Elizabeth and Miriam Spies. "A Deep Desire for Transformative Justice: A Reflection on the Birth of the Canadian Journal of Theology, Mental Health and Disability" Mad Students Zine, McMaster University, Fall 2021 (forthcoming).

Panton, Amy Elizabeth. “Christian Perspectives on Self-Harm.” Centre for Peadiatric Spiritual Care, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, February 2019.

Panton, Amy Elizabeth. “Spiritual Care for Youth Who Self-Injure.” Mandate, the United Church of Canada, Spring 2019.

Panton, Amy Elizabeth. Spiritual Care for Self-Injury Project

Xiong, Jianhui (Jane), Nazila Isgandarova, and Amy Elizabeth Panton. “COVID-19 Demands Theological Reflection: Buddhist, Muslim and Christian Perspectives on the Present Pandemic.” International Journal of Practical Theology 24, no. 1 (March 2020): 5–28.

Selected Courses

  • Disability, Neurodiversity and Mental Health for Care and Community 

  • Mental Health and Christian Theology

  • Introduction to Spiritual Care and Counselling Practice

  • Integrating Theory and Practice (MPS Capstone)

Research Awards 

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant (SSHRC) PhD dissertation on self-injury, 2022