Virginia Burrus

Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She specializes in the literary and cultural history of Christianity in late antiquity. She is the author or co-author of eleven books and has edited two volumes and published more than seventy-five articles and book chapters. Her books include include Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion's Cyprus (2022); Byzantine Tree Life: Christianity and the Arboreal Imagination (with Thomas Arentzen and Glenn Peers) (2021); Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things (2019); Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects (2008); and The Sex Lives of Saints: Toward an Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (2004). She is past president of the North American Patristics Society; founding co-editor of the Divinations series at University of Pennsylvania Press; and the recipient of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the European Institutes for Advanced Study, and the Clark Art Institute.