Alexiana
Fry
TEACHER
SCHOLAR
AUTHOR
Alexiana Fry is a guest researcher at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, with a PhD in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Her specialties are at the intersection of disciplines: feminism, migration/diaspora, and trauma.
Born and raised in the United States Midwest, she also is a registered yoga teacher (200) with additional training on trauma-informed somatics for yoga from Collective Resilience. She also received additional training for public scholarship with Sacred Writes, as well as on Forced Migrations from the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University.
Seeking Subjectivity in/with/Through Esther’s Mobility” - Religions - 2026
“The Myth of Multiculturalism in MT Esther: Comparing Western and Persian Hegemonic Tolerance” - Religions - 2025
“Don’t Feel It, Don’t Heal It: Ezekiel 24:15-27 and Divine Dissociation” - JBL - 2025
“Divergent Views of Migration: A Multidisciplinary Conversation about Human Mobility in the Hebrew Bible” - Avar - 2025
"At the Crossroads of Interdisciplinarity: Mobility and Migration in the Bible and ANE” - Avar - 2025
“Layers of Abjection: The Unnamed Pilegesh of Judges 19 and Us” - Avar - 2024
“Whom Shall I Fear? The Irony of Affective Politics in Judges 19” - JIBS - 2023
“Don’t Feel It Don’t Heal It with Alexiana Fry” - It Means What It Means - 2026
“[Bible] Episode 297: Alexiana Fry - Trauma in the Hebrew Bible” - The Bible for Normal People - 2025
“Ezekiel 24:15-27 and Divine Dissociation w/ Dr. Alexiana Fry” - The Classical Ideas Podcast - 2025
“Trauma and the Hebrew Bible with Dr. Alexiana Fry” - The Two Cities - 2024
“Multipals 05: Dr. Alexiana Fry” - Apocrypals - 2023
“Trauma as a Biblical Hermeneutic” - It Means What It Means - 2023
“Evangelicals and Witch Hunts” - Faith and Feminism - 2023
“Rape Narratives and Purity Culture in Judges 19” - Faith and Feminism - 2023
“Reimagining Esther: Purim amidst Polarization” - Baptist News Global - 2026
“Remembering Phyllis Trible” - Baptist News Global - 2025
“‘Either You’re Brainwashed or You’re Weird and Ugly’: Beyond Binaries and In Defense of ‘Playful’ Scholarship” - FSR - 2025
“Myth: ‘Palestinians are like the Amalekites of the Bible’” - Everyday Orientalism - 2024
“Margin. Meeting. Mirror. Shifting Perspective to Read Rahab, the Levite’s Wife, and the Necromancer of En-Dor” - The Shiloh Project - 2022
“Processing by/through/in Written Word” - AAR - 2021
“Trauma and the ‘Other,’ For Better or Worse” - FSR - 2020
For speaking engagements and other booking related inquiries, email alexianadfry@gmail.com.
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