Majella Franzmann is a professor in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA).
[1] Franzmann completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 1990 in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics; the title of her thesis was "An analysis of the poetical structure and form of the Odes of Solomon".
[2] While Franzmann was working on her doctorate she also spent time at the University of Tübingen on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship.
From 2008 to early 2010 she was Pro Vice-Chancellor Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
[8] In 2006 the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) Women's Caucus invited Franzmann to give the annual Penny Magee Memorial Lecture.