Yvonne Sherwood has taught literature and religious studies at several British universities, most recently at the School of European Culture and Languages of the University of Kent. She is the coauthor (with Stephen D. Moore) of The Invention of the Biblical Scholar: A Critical Manifesto (Fortress Press, 2011) and author of Biblical Blaspheming: Trials of the Sacred for a Secular Age (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Blasphemy: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021).