Ryan Austin Fitzgerald

Director of Undergraduate Programs

Assistant Professor

Early Christianity, New Testament, Ancient Mediterranean Religions, Gender/Sexuality, Greek Apologetic Tradition, Race/Ethnicity

Ryan Austin Fitzgerald specializes in the development of early Christian self-consciousness, particularly in the Greek apologetic tradition. His current book project examines texts of the first three centuries CE to explain how varying modes of social definition are employed in tandem with ideological claims about sexuality and procreation. He works on the production of "racial" categories in both antiquity and modernity to explain ways that racial constructs of the Enlightenment color our view of the past.

Courses Taught

RELI 100 - The Human Religious Experience
RELI 235 - Religion and Literature
RELI 336 - Jesus and the Gospels
RELI 339 - The Bible as Literature
RELI 420 - Apocalypse Now and Then

Education

PhD - The University of Texas at Austin
MAR - Yale University
MA - Wake Forest University
BA - Campbell University