Robyn Faith Walsh is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami. She earned her Ph.D. at Brown University in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, with a focus on early Christianity, ancient Judaism and Roman archaeology.
Before coming to UM, Professor Walsh taught at Wheaton College (Mass.), The College of the Holy Cross, and received teaching certificates and pedagogical training at Brown University and Harvard University. She teaches courses on the New Testament, Greco-Roman literature and material culture. Her first monograph, The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture, was recently published with Cambridge University Press.
Education
| 2014 | Ph.D. Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Brown University |
| 2010 | M.A. Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Brown University |
| 2005 | M.Div. Early Christianity and Archaeology, Harvard University |
| 2002 | B.A. Ancient Studies (Religious Studies & Classics), Wheaton College |
Professional Experience
| 2014 - | Professor, University of Miami |
| 2012 - 2014 | Visiting Instructor, Department of Classics , Wheaton College (Mass.) |
| 2011 - 2012 | Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, The College of the Holy Cross |
Conferences & Events
| May 2019 | Digital Humanities and Classical Studies: An Overview, and the Challenges Ahead | Berlin, GermanyKeynote delivered with Edward Slingerland (University of British Columbia), Digital Humanities and Classical Studies, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| November 2018 | Jesus in Berlin: Normativity in Classics and the Skewing of Early Christian Literature | Berlin, GermanySession: Redescribing Early Christianity, Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting |
| November 2018 | Of Dualisms and Doppelgängers: Mapping Ancient Minds and Bodies in Religious Studies | North American Association for the Study of Religion (NAASR); SBL Annual MeetingResponse on Race and Ethnicity panel for Session: Critique in Context: Surveying Key Categories in the Study of Religion. |
| April 2018 | A Second-Century Satyrica and its Knowledge of the Gospels | Center for the Humanities, University of MiamiInvited paper presentation for the Antiquities Interdisciplinary Research Group (AIRG) |
| November 2017 | Romantic Imagination and Oral Tradition in Christian Literature | University of MiamiConference in Honor of Dr. Richard Martin, Stanford University |
| October 2017 | Imagining Judea in post-War Imperial Literature | Bern, SwitzerlandClassics and Religious Studies interdisciplinary lecture series at Universität Bern |
| October 2017 | The Beginning of Gospel Literature | University of MiamiUniversity of Miami Center for Humanities Colloquium, University of Miami |
| September 2017 | What is a Classic? | University of MiamiInvited paper presentation for the AIRG, Center for the Humanities, University of Miami |
| June 2017 | The Database of Religious History | Rome, ItalyInvited lecture on The Database of Religious History (DRH) digital humanities project, XIV International Symposium of University Professors |
| April 2017 | The New Jim Crow | University of MiamiGuest lecture with Dr. Michelle Maldonado for HON 330: Books That Matter |
| January 2017 | Reconsidering the Synagogue-Basilica of Elche, Spain | Florida International UniversityMondays at the Museum Series at Florida International University (FIU) |
The letters of Paul, the history and interpretation of the Synoptic problem, theory and method, cognitive science, Imperial archaeology, the influence of German Romanticism on the field of early Christian studies.
Publications
Robyn Faith Walsh The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (Cambridge University Press. 2021).
[BUY]Robyn Walsh "“Paul the Apostle,”" (Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia, The Database of Religious History, Religious Expert Poll. January 2008). [Link]
Robyn Walsh "Q and the ‘Big Bang’ Theory of Christian Origins" Redescribing The Gospel of Mark (Early Christianity and its Literature) 483-533 (Society of Biblical Literature Press. 2017).
[GET FROM LIBRARY]More Publications
