Theresa J. Hornsby

THERESA J. HORNSBY is a Professor of Religious Studies at Drury University and director of Drury’s Women and Gender Studies Program. Her books include Transgender, Intersex, and Biblical Interpretation, Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship and Sex Texts from the Bible: Selections Annotated & Explained.

Hornsby holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Vanderbilt University. She received the Bettye R. Ford Award from the Graduate School of Religion in 1997–1998 and the Luke-Acts Prize in 1997 and 2000.

Hornsby serves as a member and committee chair of the Society of Biblical Literature. Her scholarship focuses on gender, sex, and sexuality in biblical studies and religious life.

Theresa J. Hornsby’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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