Virginia Burrus is an American scholar of Late Antiquity and expert on gender, sexuality and religion.
She is currently the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion and director of graduate studies at Syracuse University.
[1][2] She then went on to gain an master's degree in 1984 in the History of Christianity from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.
Burrus has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Early Christian Studies (2008–2014), and is the founding co-editor of the University of Pennsylvania Press Series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion (2001–present).
[1] Burrus engages with a variety of theoretical discourses within her work, including feminism and post-colonialism, applying and critiquing the approaches of 20th century philosophers and theorists such as Baudrillard, Cixous, Foucault and Irigaray.