About
Naomi Reiss is a PhD candidate and Tutor at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity. Her research focuses on incarceration in early Christian literature and its intersections with modern carceral discourses. She teaches courses on Pauline epistles and New Testament Greek while contributing to the interdisciplinary Prison Project in Copenhagen.
Education: MA (Cantab) in Modern and Medieval Languages from University of Cambridge (2019); MSc Biblical Studies (Distinction) from University of Edinburgh (2021).
Research explores how early Christian texts document imprisonment experiences and engage with broader carceral logics. She analyzes biblical texts' roles in shaping modern understandings of imprisonment and pastoral care for prisoners.
Recent conference presentations include discussions on Perpetua's prison space (SBL 2024), detention narratives in Acts (SBL 2024), and Paul's relationships with authorities (SBL 2023). Upcoming engagements include a keynote at the Materiality of Incarceration conference in Copenhagen (2025).
Publications include co-authored work on the Prison Project's methodology (Early Christianity 2025) and an analysis of animal imprisonment imagery in Acts of Paul (Biblical Interpretation 2023).
