{"id":1400,"date":"2019-09-12T09:42:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?post_type=profile&p=1400"},"modified":"2025-10-10T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T13:20:57","slug":"luis-menendez-antuna","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/luis-menendez-antuna\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Men\u00e9ndez-Antu\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luis Men\u00e9ndez-Antu\u00f1a is Associate Professor of New Testament at Boston University School of Theology. He is interested in Biblical interpretation, Queer interpretation, Latinx interpretation, Slavery and Christianity, liberation theology. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and served as Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley, CA). His current research explores the queer and postcolonial afterlives of the biblical texts. He has published his research on journals such as Estudios Eclesi\u00e1sticos<\/em>,\u00a0Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones<\/em>,\u00a0Biblical Interpretation<\/em>,\u00a0Journal of Religious Ethics<\/em>,\u00a0Early Christianity, Critical Research on Religion<\/em>, Journal of Biblical Literature<\/em>, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.<\/em> His first monograph on Revelation,\u00a0Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation\u00a0<\/em>(Routledge) offers a liberatory reading of Revelation 17-18 using postcolonial and queer historiographies to explore emancipatory paths for identity formation in Biblical texts. He is currently working on his second monograph (New Testament Studies after the Cultural Studies Turn<\/em>) that focuses on theoretical and hermeneutical developments in New Testament Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previously to completing his doctoral studies at Vanderbilt University, Men\u00e9ndez-Antu\u00f1a received a Master in Biblical Studies from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid), and a Master of Theology from the Universidad Pontificia in Salamanca. He is a Fulbright scholar and has also received grants from the Hispanic Theological Initiative\/Luce Foundation, the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, and the Louisville Institute. He received the Diamond Award for integrative scholarship (SBL, 2021) for his work on torture in the Gospel of Mark. <\/span><\/p>\n

Men\u00e9ndez-Antu\u00f1a also brings twelve years of activism and ministry experience. He has worked in community organizing, HIV advocacy, homeless shelters, prison, and with kids on the street. His political and theological commitments spring from his involvement in Catholic Christian Base Communities rooted in Latin-American Liberation Theology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Publications<\/h2>\n

Works in Progress<\/h3>\n

Editor (with Mitzi Smith and Raj Nadella), Oxford Handbook of Race, Diaspora, and the Bible <\/em>(under contract with Oxford: Oxford University Press, expected 2025).<\/p>\n

Peer-Reviewed Monographs<\/h3>\n

Bridging the Interpretive Abyss: Reading the New Testament After the Cultural Studies Turn <\/em>(Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2025).<\/em><\/p>\n

Thinking Sex with the Great Whore: Deviant Sexualities and Empire in the Book of Revelation <\/em>(London\/New York: Routledge, 2018).<\/p>\n

Peer-Reviewed Articles<\/h3>\n

\u201cHistoriographies of Enslavement: The Unthought Body of the Captive in Galatians 4:1-9,\u201d Harvard Theological Review<\/em> (forthcoming October, 2025).<\/p>\n

\u201cUn nuevo paradigma de cr\u00edtica b\u00edblica decolonial: el modelo presentista,\u201d Vida y Pensamiento<\/em> 43.2 (2023): 43\u201374.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Book of Torture. The Gospel of Mark, Crucifixion, and Trauma,\u201d Journal of the American Academy of Religion<\/em> 90.2 (2022): 377\u2013395.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf Social Death and Solitary Confinement: The Political Life of a Gerasene (Luke 8:26\u201339)\u201d Journal of Biblical Literature<\/em> 138.3 (2019): 643\u2013664.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlack Lives Matter and Gospel Hermeneutics: Political Life and Social Death in the Gospel of Luke,\u201d Currents in Theology and Mission<\/em> 45.4 (October 2018): 29\u201334.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs Caravaggio a Queer Theologian? Paul\u2019s Conversion on the Way to Damascus,\u201d Critical Research on Religion <\/em>6.2 (2018): 132\u2013150.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Queer Art of Biblical Reading. Matthew 25:31-46 (Caritas Christiana<\/em>) through Caritas Romana<\/em>,\u201d Journal of Religious Ethics <\/em>45.4 (2017): 732\u2013759.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuerpos ambiguos. Un estudio comparativo del status antropol\u00f3gico y pol\u00edtico de las mujeres en las Cartas Pastorales y los Hechos Ap\u00f3crifos de Pablo y Tecla,\u201d Ilu. <\/em>Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones<\/em> 21 (2016): 93\u2013113.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs There a Room for Queer Desires in the House of Biblical Scholarship? A Methodological Reflection on Queer Desires in the Context of Contemporary New Testament Studies,\u201d Biblical Interpretation<\/em> 23 (2015): 399\u2013427.<\/p>\n

\u201cMale-Bonding, Female Vanishing. Representing Gendered Authority in Luke 23:26-24:53,\u201d Early Christianity 4<\/em> (2013): 490\u2013506.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelecturas desde el \u2018m\u00e1s-ac\u00e1\u2019. Introduciendo la \u00f3ptica postcolonial en el panorama b\u00edblico de lengua hispana,\u201d Theologica Xaveriana<\/em> 61.171 (2011): 169\u2013202.<\/p>\n

\u201cStatus desviado: mujeres estigmatizadas en el cristianismo primitivo,” Estudios Eclesi\u00e1sticos<\/em> 322 (2007): 571\u2013610.<\/p>\n

Other Publications<\/h2>\n

In Edited Volumes<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe Invisible Body in Chains. Approaching a Body Nowhere to be Found (Luke 12:22-34),\u201d Concilium (forthcoming 2026).<\/p>\n

\u201cM\u00e9todos extra\u00f1os: c\u00f3mo la teor\u00eda queer\/marica nos ayuda a comprender mejor la identidad en las primeras comunidades cristianas,\u201d Rese\u00f1a B\u00edblica (forthcoming 2025).<\/p>\n

\u201cBible and Sexuality Studies,\u201d in Fernando Segovia and Ahida Pilarski (eds.) Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Latin and Latinx America<\/em> (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhiteness and the Dismissal of Emancipatory Hermeneutics in Biblical Studies: A Decolonial Genealogy,\u201d in Wongi Park (ed.) Multiracial Biblical Criticism<\/em> (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Press, forthcoming 2025).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy Do Biblical Interpreters Hate Sex So Much,\u201d in Bernard Schlager (ed.) Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship: Essays in Honor of John Eastburn Boswell<\/em> (London; New York: Routledge, 2025), 168\u2013177.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Biblical Critic as Constructed: An Intercontextual Approach to Biblical Interpretation,\u201d in Francisco Lozada, Amy Lindeman Allen, and Yak-hwee Tan (eds.) The Critic in the World. Essays in Honor of Fernando F. Segovia <\/em>(Atlanta: SBL Press, 2024), 569\u2013598.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Colonies Strike Back: How Latin-American Liberation Theology Saved Christianity in Post-dictatorial Spain\u201d in Jin Young Choi and Gregory Cu\u00e9llar (eds.) Activist Hermeneutics of Liberation in the Bible. A Global Intersectional Perspective \u00a0<\/em>(London; New York: Routledge, 2023), 41\u201359.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ethical Turn in Biblical Studies: Its Relevance for the Classroom as an Interreligious Space,\u201d in Lucinda Allen Mosher, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Or N. Rose, Axel Tak\u00e1cs, (eds.) Deep Understanding for Divisive Times: Essays Marking a Decade of the Journal of Interreligious Studies<\/em> (Newton Centre: Interreligious Studies Press, 2020), 114\u2013119.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa ambig\u00fcedad poscolonial: lecturas ambivalentes del evangelio de Marcos,\u201d in Carlos Gil (ed.) El Evangelio de Marcos<\/em>. Rese\u00f1a B\u00edblica 85 (Primavera 2015), 25\u201338.<\/p>\n

\u201c1 Corinthians,\u201d in Mark Roncace and Joseph Weaver (eds.) Global Perspectives on the New Testament<\/em> (New Jersey: Pearson, 2014), 148\u2013150.<\/p>\n

\u201cPastoral Epistles,\u201d in Mark Roncace and Joseph Weaver (eds.) Global Perspectives on the New Testament<\/em> (New Jersey: Pearson, 2014), 185\u2013187.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Queer Hermeneutics Can Do for Us in Spain,\u201d in Yung Suk Kim (ed.) 1 and 2 Corinthians. Texts@Contexts<\/em> (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013), 147\u2013162.<\/p>\n

Other Venues<\/h3>\n

\u201cEntrevista a Fernando Segovia\u201d Rese\u00f1a B\u00edblica<\/em> 120 (2023) 74\u201376.<\/p>\n

\u201cFocus on the Problems\u201d Talking with God Project. Podcast by Meli Solomon (September 2022). https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/2L0aJlst7Wz0irIanqphzn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dichotomy Between Acceptance and Rejection\u2019 (Short Doc): A Profile on Dr. Luis Men\u00e9ndez-Antu\u00f1a\u201d (Edited by Pablo Barrera).\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M3mc0BrcsLA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cA Coming Out Story,\u201d in BU Today. Coming Out Series (June 2022). https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/my-coming-out-story-luis-menendez-antuna\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAgainst Opposition,\u201d in Against Us, Within Us (Mild Laohapoonrungsee). Project on Queer Life in Boston (https:\/\/againstus-withinus.myportfolio.com\/home<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cMark 10:2-16. Commentary,\u201d \u201cMark 10:17-31. Commentary,\u201d \u201cMark 10:35-45. Commentary,\u201d Mark 10:46-52. Commentary,\u201d in WorkingPreacher.org (2021-2022). See https:\/\/www.workingpreacher.org\/authors\/luis-menendez-antuna<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat biblical scholars don\u2019t do\u201d in Living Lutheran (<\/em>December 2018).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAcademic talk is not racial justice\u201d in Daily Theology.com (28-10-2017). See https:\/\/dailytheology.org\/2017\/10\/28\/academic-talk-is-not-racial-justice\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSan Juan 11:1-45. Comentario,\u201d \u201cSan Mateo 27:11-54. Comentario,\u201d \u201cSan Juan 13:1-17, 31b-35. Comentario,\u201d \u201cSan Juan 18:1-19:42. Comentario,\u201d \u201cSan Marcos 5:21-43. Comentario,\u201d \u201cSan Juan 3:1-17. Comentario,\u201d \u201cSan Marcos 3:20-35. Comentario,\u201d \u201cSan Juan 15:26-27, 16:4b-15. Comentario,\u201d in WorkingPreacher.Org (2016-2017). \u00a0See https:\/\/www.workingpreacher.org\/<\/span>authors\/luis-menendez-antuna<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cJohn 15: 1-11\u201d and \u201cJohn 15: 12-17,\u201d in Cynthia A. Jarvis and Elizabeth Johnson (eds.) Feasting on the Gospels. John, Volume 2<\/em> (Louisville: KY, Westminster John Knox Press, 2015), 181-182.<\/p>\n

\u201cPor donde pasa este torrente.\u00a0 Experiencias de Dios en la vida cotidiana\u201d, Todos a uno 164 (2005).<\/p>\n

\u201cEl Reino de Dios\u201d, in Miguel Iribertegui (Ed.), El Rosario de Mar\u00eda<\/em> (San Esteban: Salamanca, 2003), 55\u201363.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[20],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59251,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1400\/revisions\/59251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}