Elizabeth Castelli is an author and Professor of Religion at Barnard College.
She specializes in biblical studies, late ancient Christianity, feminist studies in religion along with theory and method in the study of religion, with a particular focus on the after-effects of biblical and early Christian texts, including the citation of the Bible and ancient Christian sources in debates concerning cultural and political expression.
[1] Castelli is an Editorial Director of The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books She is also on the advisory board of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, on the board of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and a member of the board of the Center of Constitutional Rights.
[1] Castelli attended Brown University, where she earned an Honors Bachelor in English and American Literature in 1979, and Claremont Graduate School, where she earned her Masters and Doctorate in Religion during 1986 and 1987, respectively.
[2] During her early career Castelli worked as an executive director on domestic violence on the Rhode Island Council and a staff coordinator at Brown University from 1979-1981.