Arminta Fox, Ph.D., MTS

Biography 

Dr. Arminta Fox joined the Augustana Department of Religion, Philosophy & Classics in 2024 as an assistant professor of religion. Prior to Augustana, she was an associate professor of religion and director of the Varenhorst Center for Discovery, Reflection and Vocation at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, where she received tenure in 2021. Fox received Bethany College’s Donna Meredith Humphreys Award for Excellence in Teaching for the 2020-21 academic year. While at Bethany, Fox launched and directed the women’s & gender studies program. She also received a 2022-23 research sabbatical, shepherded several grant projects with NetVUE and Interfaith America, and participated in the selective “Teaching Interfaith Understanding” seminar with Interfaith America.

Fox’s primary areas of research include the complex development of identity in biblical texts and early Christian history, feminist biblical scholarship, contextual hermeneutics and material culture. Her first monograph, Paul Decentered: Reading 2 Corinthians with the Corinthian Women, was published by Lexington/Fortress Academic in December 2019. Fox has several publications within edited volumes and journals, ranging in topic from early Christian sex and gender to vocation. Her introduction and critical notes for 2 Corinthians will be included in the NRSVue translation of the Westminster Study Bible, to be published in Fall 2024. She has been working on a second monograph that uses contextual reading strategies, a feminist decentering approach and affect theories to read biblical and early Christian texts alongside the stories of people caught in the U.S. criminal justice system of the 21st century. Fox co-chairs the Paul and Politics Unit of the Society of Biblical Literature, as well as the Critical Carceral Studies and Bible sessions.