[2] Knust has written about the importance of gendered discourses to the production of an early Christian identity.
Knust earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1988.
Knust received an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship and was in residence at the American Academy in Rome.
Knust has recently acted as the president of the New England and Eastern Canada Region of the Society of Biblical Literature, and is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
She has published multiple monographs, a number of papers, and frequently gives talks at invited lectures, conference presentations, for popular media, and workshops.