Rhiannon Graybill

Rhiannon Graybill is a Professor of Religious Studies. She is the Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Richmond. She is an expert on the Hebrew Bible.

Education Graybill received her PhD in Near Eastern Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. Her thesis was entitled Men in Travail: Masculinity and the Problems of the Body in the Hebrew Prophets. Her doctoral supervisor was Robert Alter.

Career Graybill is the author of Are We Not Men? Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets, published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She published her second book, Texts after Terror: Rape, Sexual Violence, and the Hebrew Bible again with Oxford University Press (2021). Texts after Terror received the American Academy of Religion's 2022 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion. Graybill is the co-editor, with Robert L. Seesengood, of the journal The Bible and Critical Theory.