Vanessa Zoltan is currently a research assistant at Harvard Divinity School, a proctor and teaching fellow at Harvard University, and the co-host of the podcast, Harry Potter & The Sacred Text.

She graduated with her BA in English Literature and Writing from Washington University in St. Louis, her MS in Nonprofit Management from the University of Pennsylvania and her MDiv from Harvard Divinity School in 2015. She is working on a book about treating Jane Eyre as a sacred text.

Her work with Jane Eyre and Harry Potter has been written about in The New York Times and covered on CNN. Vanessa blogs for the Huffington Post.