Education
Ph.D., New Testament, Religious Studies, Yale University.
M.A. New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
M.A. English Literature, University of Chicago.
B.A. English Literature, Pomona College.
Biography
Professor Lin specializes in immigration, textual criticism, the Revelation of John, race, and gender. Her book Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration(link is external) (Yale University Press 2024), focuses on the use of Revelation in political discourse surrounding American immigration—in conceptions of America as the New Jerusalem and of unwanted immigrants as the filthy, idolatrous horde outside the city walls.
Her book The Erotic Life of Manuscripts(link is external) (Oxford 2016), examines how metaphors of race, family, evolution, and genetic inheritance have shaped the goals and assumptions of New Testament textual criticism from the eighteenth century to the present.
She is currently working on issues of textuality and scripturalization, as well as on affect, the construction of “cuteness,” and its social and political power.
Professor Lin has been published in journals such as the Journal of Biblical Literature, Early Christianity, and TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism. She is co-chair of the Minoritized Criticism and Biblical Interpretation section of the Society of Biblical Literature, on the steering committee for the Ethnic Chinese Biblical Colloquium, and on the steering committees for the New Testament Textual Criticism and the Bible in America sections of SBL. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature. Professor Lin is a member of the Society of Asian Biblical Studies, the European Association of Biblical Studies, and an elected member of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.
Read more
- Inclusion & exclusion in the New Testament and beyond: An interview with Prof. Yii-Jan Lin
- New Quadcast episode explores sensitive issues in the New Testament
- ‘Open gates and doors’: YDS professor raises voice as part of 100 days/100 letters project
- Leading scholars join Yale Divinity School faculty
Website: http://yiijanlin.com