Kim Haines-Eitzen

Haines-Eitzen has published on early Christian scribal practices and on desert monasticism. She published the monograph Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature in 2000 with Oxford University Press. Her second book, The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity, was also published by Oxford University Press in 2011. Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us was published in 2022 by the University of Princeton Press.^[3]

Haines-Eitzen featured in the documentary series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, made by National Geographic.^[4] She was awarded a National Humanities Center (NHC) Fellowship for 2024-25.^[5] She has written for The Conversation.^[6]

• Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
• The Gendered Palimpsest: Women, Writing, and Representation in Early Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Boundaries and Bodies in Late Antiquity, co-edited with Georgia Frank, special issue of The Journal of Early Christian Studies 17 (2009)
• Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.