Mónica I. Rey received her PhD in 2023, defending her dissertation titled, “Captive: Gendering Genocide in the Hebrew Bible”. Rey holds an S.T.M. in Hebrew Bible from Boston University School of Theology (2012), an M.A. in Old Testament from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2011), and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University (2009). Rey has presented papers at the New England & Eastern Canada Regional Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (2012; 2013), and was a 2012 recipient of The American Schools of Oriental Research Heritage Fellowship at which time she excavated at Kirbet Qeiyafa in Beit Shemesh, Israel. She has been a Hispanic Theological Initiative Fellow, and served on the Journal of the American Academy of Religion Book Review Staff as a book review assistant editor.
M. I. Rey is now a Visiting Instructor of WGS at Wheaton College (MA) and adjunct professor of Gender Studies at Babson College. Her teaching specialty is in courses that tackle religion, gender, sexuality and violence. Rey is especially interested in teaching contextual interpretations of the Bible (especially from feminist and LGBT+ perspectives).