Erin Runions is a specialist in the Hebrew Bible, which she reads from the perspective of cultural studies. Her work brings together politics, culture and the reading of biblical text, with attention to the ways in which interpretations of the Bible come to condition contemporary configurations of power. She pays special attention to the effect of the Bible—mediated through popular and scholarly biblical commentary, as well as film, literature, and political discourse—on debates over gender, sexuality, forms of democratic governance, the war on terror, racialization, and US imperialism.
Her publications include, Changing Subjects: Gender, Nation, Future in Micah (Sheffield Academic Press, 2001); How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003); as well as articles in a range of edited collections and journals including, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Postscripts, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, The Bible and Critical Theory, Semeia, The Scholar and Feminist Online, and Biblical Interpretation.