Robyn Faith Walsh is a scholar of early Christianity and the ancient Mediterranean, and Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami, where she also serves as the university’s Gabelli Senior Scholar (2025–2028). She studies the New Testament within the wider literary, intellectual, and cultural world of the Roman Empire—focusing on what ancient writers read, how they borrowed from one another, and how later readers reshaped those stories.

Her first book, The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco‑Roman Literary Culture (Cambridge University Press), reinterprets the gospels as products of Roman‑era literary networks. Her current projects continue this approach, including studies of Romanticism’s influence on modern biblical scholarship and of the gospels as popular literature in the imperial period. She also publishes widely on topics such as reception history, aesthetics, authorship, and material culture.

Walsh is active in both academic and public scholarship: she serves on several editorial boards, collaborates on digital humanities projects such as The Database of Religious History, and her work appears or is referenced in media outlets including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Slate, and The Daily Beast. She has been invited to speak at universities and research institutes across North America and Europe.