Vincent L. Wimbush

Vincent L. Wimbush, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized scholar of religion, intellectual leader, and academic gadfly, with more than thirty years of advanced graduate-level teaching and research experience. He is author/editor of Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black Flesh (result of partnership with Pitts Theology Library), Black Flesh Matters: Essays on Runagate Interpretation, and scores of articles and essays. He is founding director of The Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS) (www.signifyingscriptures.org), an international scholarly organization, and is conceptualizer and director of several collaborative trans-disciplinary research projects, including a documentary film (Finding God in the City of Angels) on the ethnography of scriptures. Recipient of numerous awards and research grants, he is past president of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Wimbush’s general teaching and research interests focus on the trans-disciplinary and comparative study of “scriptures” as sharp wedge for critical research and theorizing in the politics of language, social formation, consciousness, and orientation. His particular area of expertise turns around the uses of scriptures in the historical and contemporary circum-Black Atlantic as window onto the larger comparative phenomena and dynamics of scripturalizing and scripturalization.

BOOKS

Masquerade: Scripturalizing Modernities through Black Flesh, Fortress Academic, 2023

Black Flesh Matters: Essays on Runagate Interpretation, Fortress Academic, 2022

White Men’s Magic: Scripturalization as Slavery, Oxford University Press, 2014

MisReading America: Scriptures and Difference, Oxford University Press, 2013

African Americans and the Bible, Wipf & Stock, 2013

Theorizing Scriptures, Rutgers University Press, 2008