Homrighausen, Joanna

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. Her recent 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 currently teaches Biblical Hebrew and Judaic Studies at the College of William & Mary.