Professor Yvonne Sherwood is the authour of several books including A Biblical Text and its Afterlives: The Survival of Jonah in Western Culture (2001), The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto (2011) and Biblical Blaspheming: Trials of the Sacred for a Secular Age (2012). She is also co-editor of Sanctified Aggression: Legacies of Biblical and Post-Biblical Vocabularies of Violence (2004) and Bodies in Question: Gender, Religion, Text (2005).
Sherwood has worked at the University of Glasgow and (before Glasgow) at the University of Roehampton, King's College London, the University of Sheffield, University of Glasgow and is now at the University of Kent. She is active in the fields of Biblical Studies (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible), Religious Studies (broadly defined) and in a wide variety of cross-disciplinary research contexts. She has led and worked on several sections at the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. She is currently the co-editor of the Biblical Interpretation monograph series (Brill) and the co-editor of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature.
Sherwood has participated in the International Society of Intellectual History; the North American Association for the Study of Religion; the Gender and Canonicity Project (Oslo); the project ‘Traces of Judaism in Contemporary Thought’ (Krakow); the Secularisation Symposium, ‘Rechtskulturen: Confrontations Beyond Comparison’ (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Humboldt University Faculty of Law); the workshop ‘Messianism and Prophecy: Figures of Twentieth Century Thought’, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in German Literature and Culture at the University of Chicago; and the project ‘Terrorism and the Literary Imagination’ (Uppsala University).
Sherwood has worked at the University of Glasgow and (before Glasgow) at the University of Roehampton, King's College London, the University of Sheffield, University of Glasgow and is now at the University of Kent. She is active in the fields of Biblical Studies (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible), Religious Studies (broadly defined) and in a wide variety of cross-disciplinary research contexts. She has led and worked on several sections at the Society of Biblical Literature and the American Academy of Religion. She is currently the co-editor of the Biblical Interpretation monograph series (Brill) and the co-editor of the Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature.
Sherwood has participated in the International Society of Intellectual History; the North American Association for the Study of Religion; the Gender and Canonicity Project (Oslo); the project ‘Traces of Judaism in Contemporary Thought’ (Krakow); the Secularisation Symposium, ‘Rechtskulturen: Confrontations Beyond Comparison’ (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Humboldt University Faculty of Law); the workshop ‘Messianism and Prophecy: Figures of Twentieth Century Thought’, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in German Literature and Culture at the University of Chicago; and the project ‘Terrorism and the Literary Imagination’ (Uppsala University).