Erin Runions is Nancy J. Lyon Professor of Biblical History and Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at Pomona College. She is the author of The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex and Sovereignty (Fordham University Press, 2014), How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film (Palgrave MacMillan, 2003), and Changing Subjects: Gender, Nation, Future in Micah (Sheffield University Press, 2001).