Jennifer Barry (jbarry)

Associate Professor

James Farmer Hall Room 242
jbarry@umw.edu
540-654-1343

Jennifer Barry in the News

Barry Invited to be Marsico Visiting Scholar at Denver University

Jennifer Barry, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, was invited to be the 2024, Marsico Visiting Scholar at Denver University. Barry was invited to share material from the next book, meet with both undergraduate and graduate students, and co-teach a course on Gender and Sexuality in Early Christianity. Barry also recently was Read more…

Barry Presents Research as Harvard, Classical Loeb Library Fellow

This spring, Jennifer Barry, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, will present material from her research project Gender Violence in Late Antiquity. She will present a chapter of the book at the Boston Patristics Society on February 15, 2024, and will give a public lecture at the University of Denver on Read more…

Barry Publishes in ‘Journal of Late Antiquity’

Jennifer Barry, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, was recently published in the Journal of Late Antiquity. Her article, "A Bad Romance: Late Ancient Fantasy, Violence, and Christian Hagiography" spotlights material in her current book project on gender violence in late ancient Christian hagiographies (saint's lives). The following is an abstract of Read more…

Barry Quoted in Daily Beast Article

Jennifer Barry, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, was recently interviewed and quoted on the online news and opinion site the Daily Beast. The article, titled, "Falwell's 'Blame the Woman' Strategy Goes All the Way Back to Eden" was written by Candida Moss (the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the Read more…

Barry Publishes Article in Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Jennifer Barry recently published a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Christian Orthodoxy. The article, “We Didn’t Start the Fire: The Alexandrian legacy within orthodox memory,” is free and available to the public. An abstract of the article includes the following: If we think about the past Read more…

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