Virginia Burrus
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Author and scholar on gender and sexuality in late antiquity
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Virginia Burrus is an American scholar of Late Antiquity and expert on gender, sexuality and religion. She is currently the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion and director of graduate studies at Syracuse University.
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Published Works
- The Sex Lives of Saints (2003) (178)
- ‘Begotten, Not Made’: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (2000) (125)
- Reading Agnes: The Rhetoric of Gender in Ambrose and Prudentius (2009) (82)
- The Making of a Heretic: Gender, Authority, and the Priscillianist Controversy (1995) (80)
- Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects (2007) (49)
- Chastity as Autonomy: Women in the Stories of the Apocryphal Acts (1987) (44)
- "Equipped for Victory": Ambrose and the Gendering of Orthodoxy (1996) (38)
- The Heretical Woman as Symbol in Alexander, Athanasius, Epiphanius, and Jerome (1991) (36)
- Mimicking Virgins: Colonial Ambivalence and the Ancient Romance (2005) (34)
- Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (2006) (31)
- Hybridity as Subversion of Orthodoxy? Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2005) (26)
- The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women (review) (2008) (24)
- Hailing Zenobia: Anti‐Judaism, trinitarianism, and John Henry Newman (2002) (15)
- UNSAFE SEX: FEMINISM, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE SONG OF SONGS (2003) (14)
- Mapping as metamorphosis: Initial reflections on gender and ancient religious discourses (2007) (12)
- Macrina's Tattoo (2003) (11)
- Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions (2010) (10)
- Rhetorical Stereotypes in the Portrait of Paul of Samosata (1989) (7)
- Late Ancient Christianity (2010) (6)
- Is Macrina a Woman? Gregory of Nyssa's Dialogue on the Soul and Resurrection (2007) (6)
- Queer Lives of Saints: Jerome's Hagiography (2001) (6)
- Aliens and Sojourners (2017) (5)
- Carnal Excess: Flesh at the Limits of Imagination (2009) (5)
- THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND FELICITAS (2014) (5)
- Toward a Theology of Eros (2007) (4)
- Bodies without Wholes: Apophatic Excess and Fragmentation in Augustine's City of God* (2009) (4)
- 2010 NAPS Presidential Address: "Fleeing the Uxorious Kingdom": Augustine's Queer Theology of Marriage (2011) (3)
- An Immoderate Feast: Augustine Reads John’s Apocalypse (1999) (3)
- Knowing bodies, passionate souls: sense perceptions in Byzantium, edited by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett (2019) (3)
- The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (review) (2004) (3)
- Nothing Is Not One: Revisiting the ex nihilo (2013) (2)
- Performing sadomasochism in the song of songs (2002) (2)
- A Saint of One's Own: Emmanuel Levinas, Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, and Eulalia of Mérida (2010) (2)
- Ancient Christian Ecopoetics (2019) (2)
- The Life of Saint Helia: Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary (2014) (1)
- “Nec sanabatur vulnus illud meum” (Conf. 6.15): Trauma, Time, and Voice in Augustine’s Confessions (2014) (1)
- Hagiography without Humans: Simeon the Stylite (2020) (1)
- Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts (review) (2009) (1)
- ‘Begotten, Not Made’ (2000) (1)
- Elizabeth Clark's History, Theory, Text:: A (Somewhat) Confessional Reading (2005) (1)
- Wyschogrod's Hand: Saints, Animality, and the Labor of Love (2011) (1)
- 27. Anonymous Spanish Correspondence; or the Letter of the "She-ass" (2000) (1)
- Socrates, the Rabbis and the Virgin: The Dialogic Imagination in Late Antiquity (2017) (1)
- From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity by Kyle Harper (review) (2014) (1)
- History, Theology, Orthodoxy, Polydoxy (2014) (1)
- Passion. Binding. Passion. (2006) (1)
- Unreliable Witnesses: Religion, Gender, and History in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean (review) (2011) (1)
- Her Image of Salvation: Female Saviors and Formative Christianity; By Gail Paterson Corrington Louisville, Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992. 224 pp. $19.99 (1993) (0)
- Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Lifestyles (review) (1996) (0)
- Chapter 3. Hybrid Desire: Empire, Sadism, and the Soldier Saint (2004) (0)
- Chapter 1. Fancying Hermits: Sublimation and the Arts of Romance (2004) (0)
- Becoming-Tree (2021) (0)
- Earthquakes and Gardens (0)
- Torture, Truth, and the Witnessing Body: Reading Christian Martyrdom with Page duBois (2017) (0)
- “Honor the Fathers”: Exegesis and Authority in the Life of Saint Helia (2013) (0)
- The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament: By Bart D. Ehrman New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. 314 pp. $45.00 (1995) (0)
- Chapter 4. Shameful Confessions (2008) (0)
- Seducing Theology (2012) (0)
- Chapter 4. Secrets of Seduction: The Lives of Holy Harlots (2004) (0)
- Blurring the Boundaries: A Response to Howard C. Kee (1992) (0)
- In the Beginning, Trees (2021) (0)
- Making Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians . By Dale B. Martin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii + 307 pp. $29.95 cloth. (2006) (0)
- Postscript (Catching My Breath) (2004) (0)
- Chapter 1. Shameless Witnesses (2008) (0)
- Introduction: Theology and Eros after Nygren (2020) (0)
- Byzantine Tree Life (2021) (0)
- Afterword: Shame, Politics, Love (2008) (0)
- Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (review) (1998) (0)
- Books Received (2005) (0)
- Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination (review) (2009) (0)
- Introduction: Hagiography and the History of Sexuality (2004) (0)
- Introduction: Outing Shame (2008) (0)
- Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things (2018) (0)
- Remembering Constantina at the Tomb of Agnes and Beyond (2020) (0)
- The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women . By Laura Swan. New York: Paulist, 2001. 218 pp. $13.95 paper. (2002) (0)
- The Life of an Object: Perpetua’s Jug (2021) (0)
- Roundtable Discussion: Feminist Religious History: Response (2006) (0)
- Between Fragment and Compilation: A Virgin’s Vision of the Afterlife (2015) (0)
- Book Review: The Embrace of Eros: Bodies, Desires, and Sexuality in Christianity (2011) (0)
- Reading the Bride of Christ in Late Antiquity, and Now: Slippages and Subversions (2016) (0)
- The Bible as Writing Machine: Reflections on a Late Ancient Theory of Literature (2021) (0)
- Writing on Trees (2021) (0)
- “The Passover Still Takes Place Today”: Exegesis, Asceticism, Judaism, and Origen’s On Passover (2013) (0)
- Response (2006) (0)
- All Saints (2010) (0)
- Religious Asses (2019) (0)
- The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom . By Candida R. Moss. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xviii + 315 pp. $74.00 cloth. (2011) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2009) (0)
- Three Leaves: A Theopoetic Epilogue (2021) (0)
- Fragment as Plenitude: Victricius of Rouen on Saintly Bodies (2021) (0)
- Book Review:The Manly Eunuch: Masculinity, Gender Ambiguity, and Christian Ideology in Late Antiquity Mathew Kuefler (2003) (0)
- The Burden of the Flesh: Fasting and Sexuality in Early Christianity . By Teresa M. Shaw. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998. xii + 308 pp. $27.00 paper. (1999) (0)
- Chapter 2. Dying for a Life: Martyrdom, Masochism, and Female (Auto)Biography (2004) (0)
- Review: Melania: Early Christianity Through the Life of One Family, edited by Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder (2017) (0)
- Priscillian of Avila. The complete works . Edited, translated and commentary by Marco Conti. (Oxford Early Christian Texts.) Pp. xii+344. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. £90. 978 0 19 956737 9 (2011) (0)
- Chapter 2. An Embarrassment of Flesh (2008) (0)
- Augustine, Rosenzweig, and the Possibility of Experiencing Miracle (2013) (0)
- Praying Is Joying:: Musings on Love in Evagrius Ponticus (2007) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- Saints’ Lives as Performance Art (2019) (0)
- Priscillianism and Women (2021) (0)
- Chapter 3. The Desire and Pursuit of Humiliation (2008) (0)
- Preface: My Shame (2008) (0)
- Praying Is Joying: Musings on Love in Evagrius Ponticus (2020) (0)
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