Cleo Kearns is a teacher, scholar and writing coach based in Vermont and New York. A graduate of Smith College (BA) and Columbia University (PhD) she is the author of this book and The Virgin Mary, Monotheism and Sacrifice, both published by Cambridge University Press. She edits and reviews for a number of journals in the fields of cultural studies and comparative religion, and has taught composition, literature, literary theory and philosophy at the college and graduate levels at (among others) New York University, Rutgers University and Princeton Theological Seminary.
