Matthew Larsen

Matthew Larsen is a cultural historian of religion whose work focuses on the lived experiences of Jewish and Christian communities in antiquity and late antiquity. Matthew received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2017. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Gospels Before the Book (Oxford University Press, in production), as well as articles in the Journal for the Study of Judaism and the Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Matthew’s research and teaching interests include ancient writing and reading practices, ancient medical practice and religious experience, Christians and prisons, and gender and performativity in ancient Judaism and Christianity. He is currently working on a research project on early Christians and “incarceration.”