She is John Fletcher Hurst Professor of Hebrew Bible at Drew University Theological School.
[1] Fewell has enjoyed a successful association with David M. Gunn, with whom she has co-authored several articles and three books: Compromising Redemption: Relating Characters in the Book of Ruth; Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible's First Story; and Narrative in the Hebrew Bible.
Fewell and Gunn represent a postmodern literary approach to biblical literature.
[2][3] Her other works include Circle of Sovereignty: Plotting Politics in the Book of Daniel (1991), The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children (2003), and Icon of Loss: The Haunting Child of Samuel Bak (2009).
Her most recent major publication is The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Narrative (2016) a volume of fifty-one essays by some of the world’s most noted and most recent authorities on various aspects of biblical narrative.