Robyn Faith WALSH
Robyn Faith WALSH
Professorial Research Fellow (2026–2028)
University of Miami (USA)
Robyn Faith Walsh is Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Miami and the University's Gabelli Senior Scholar (2025–2028). She holds a B.A. (2002) in Ancient Studies from Wheaton College, an M.Div. (2005) from Harvard University, and an M.A. (2010) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Religious Studies from Brown University. Her research examines early Christian literature within the broader landscape of Graeco Roman writing, with particular attention to literary culture, authorship, and the reception of classical texts. She is the author of The Origins of Early Christian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2021; paperback 2023), which situates the New Testament within networks of ancient intellectuals, and her work has appeared in Harvard Theological Review, Classical Quarterly, Religion & Theology, and other journals. Walsh also serves on several editorial boards, including the Journal for the Study of the New Testament and Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus, and is a series editor for the "New Directions in Gospel Research" series (Fortress Academic). Her public scholarship and interviews have been featured in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Slate, The Daily Beast, and the Biblical Archaeology Society, and she teaches widely on topics such as early Christian literature, the Greco Roman world, gender in antiquity, and theory in the study of religion. As a Professorial Research Fellow at the Department of the Study of Religions, she advances research on literary culture, authorship, and reception in early Christian texts within their broader Greco-Roman intellectual contexts. She is currently completing The Cambridge Companion to the Non-Canonical Gospels and developing two book projects: Jesus in Berlin, which explores the influence of Romanticism on modern conceptions of Christian origins, and Popularizing Jesus, a study of the gospels as Roman literature.