Veninga is an assistant professor of Religious and Theological Studies at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, where she teaches courses in world religions and Christian theology. Her research and teaching interests include Søren Kierkegaard and existentialism, Scandinavian religion and politics, religious pluralism and interfaith understanding, Islam and the West, and feminist and queer theologies.

Veninga is the author of Secularism, Theology and Islam: The Danish Social Imaginary and the Cartoon Crisis of 2005-2006 (Bloomsbury, 2014), which will be republished in paperback this September.