Brittany E. Wilson is associate professor of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School. Her research focuses on New Testament Christology and portrayals of the divine in antiquity, and she has written extensively on issues related to embodiment, gender, and the senses. Her book The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church (Oxford University Press, 2021) explores these topics in the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts, and her current book project (tentatively titled: Enfleshing the Divine: God’s Body Language in the New Testament) expands this exploration to the New Testament more broadly. Here she maintains that the New Testament portrays God in ways that are intimately intertwined with the body, both in terms of the New Testament’s anthropomorphic language for God and its depiction of God becoming manifest in material bodies, including the body of Jesus.
Wilson’s first book, Unmanly Men: Refigurations of Masculinity in Luke-Acts (Oxford University Press, 2015), won the Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise, and she has published a number of other scholarly works in edited volumes and in academic journals such as Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Harvard Theological Review, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal of the Bible and its Reception, and New Testament Studies. Wilson is the associate editor for the Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, and she serves on the editorial board for the Library of New Testament Studies. She is the co-chair for the Society of Biblical Literature Book of Acts section, and she also serves on the steering committee for the Society of Biblical Literature Gospel of Luke section. Wilson has been a regional scholar for the Society of Biblical Literature and received a sabbatical grant for researchers from the Louisville Institute in 2016-2017. She is an elected member of the Society for New Testament Studies and a lifelong United Methodist.
