Max Strassfeld is an associate professor in religious studies at the University of Southern California. He earned a BA in comparative literature from Brown University and a PhD in religious studies from Stanford University. Strassfeld’s debut book, Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature (California, 2022) explores eunuchs and androgynes in Jewish law and pairs classical Jewish texts with intersex autobiography, transgender studies, and theories of queer temporality. Strassfeld received the Frankel Fellowship for New Perspectives on Gender and Jewish Life from the University of Michigan, a CrossCurrents fellowship at Auburn Seminary, and a fellowship from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. He has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion and Reading Religion and on the board of the Association for Jewish Studies. He is currently an associate editor at QTR: A Journal of Queer and Trans Religion.