Amy Paris Langenberg is Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College in Florida, USA. She specializes in South Asian Buddhism, with a focus on gender, sexuality, and female monasticisms. Her work combines textual and ethnographic approaches. She is author of Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom (Routledge, 2017) and has published articles in History of Religions, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Religion Compass, Religious Studies Review, and the Journal of Global Buddhism. Her most recent project is a study of sexual abuse in North American and transnational Buddhism, co-written with Ann Gleig, to be published in 2026 by Yale University Press.