Joanna Homrighausen (PhD, Religion, Duke University) writes and teaches on sacred words, sacred texts, and how individuals and communities reproduce, ritualize, and revere them through lettering arts and scribal crafts. Currently, she is writing a book on British lettering artist Martin Wenham, as well as revising her dissertation into a book. Her dissertation, Writing Esther, unpacks the materiality of the Esther scroll in Judaism and shows how Jews have used the written artifact to think through pivotal theological questions raised by the Book of Esther. She is the author of Planting Letters and Weaving Lines: Calligraphy, the Song of Songs, and The Saint John’s Bible (Liturgical Press, 2022), as well as articles in MAVCOR Journal, Hebrew Studies, Postscripts, Religion and the Arts, Journal of Interreligious Studies, Image, Visual Commentary on Scripture, The Christian Century, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion and the Arts. She currently teaches Biblical Hebrew and Religious Studies at the College of William & Mary.

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