Lily C Vuong

Lily Vuong is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Central Washington University. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto (H.B.A.) and graduate studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (M.A.) and McMaster University (Ph.D.). Before joining the faculty at CWU, she was Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Valdosta State University until 2015. She has also spent time as a Visiting Scholar at Claremont Graduate University’s School of Religion, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity and the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA's Center for the Study of Religion. Her area of study is in Early Christianity with a special interest in New Testament Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal writings. Gender studies have also played an important role in her research, especially in terms of its construction and interpretation in early Christian literature. Other topics of interest include the relationships between Judaism, Christianity, and Greco-Roman culture, the formation of Jewish and Christian identities in Late Antiquity, the place of non-canonical literature in biblical interpretation, and the representation of women in the ancient world.
Phone: 509-963-1820
Address: Central Washington University
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
400 E. University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7555