Melissa Harl Sellew

Melissa Harl Sellew is Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Religions and Cultures at the University of Minnesota. She is the editor or coeditor of three previous collections: Pauline Conversations in Context: Essay in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel; The Fabric of Early Christianity: Reflections in Honor of Helmut Koester by Fifty Years of Harvard Students; and Living for Eternity: The White Monastery and Its Neighborhood. Her recent publications bring a trans-sensitive lens to works like the Gospel of Thomas and Acts of Paul and Thecla. She is the recipient of a three-year NEH grant to support the digital humanities project Resurrecting Early Christian Lives as well as a recipient of the Arthur Motley Teaching Award from the University of Minnesota.