Matter, E. Ann

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religious Studies
Associate Dean for Arts and Letters

Contact

215.898.8614
amatter@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/%7Eamatter/

Education

A.B., Oberlin College (1971)
M.A., Yale University (1974)
M. Phil. Yale University (1975)
Ph.D., Yale University (1976)

Languages

Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, German.

Courses:

Introduction to Christianity, Religion and Literature, History of Christian Thought, Music in the History of Christianity, Medieval Christian Mysticism, Medieval Christian Biblical Interpretation; Latin Paleography

Overseas Research Experience

Italy, France, Austria, Germany, England

Publications

*“The Canon of the Religious Life: Maria Domitilla Galluzzi and the Rule of St Clare of Assisi,” Strong Voices, Weak History ed. Victorian Kirkham and Pamela Benson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005) pp. 78-98; “Le Cappuccine di Pavia: povertà, potere, e patrocinio,” for I monasteri femminili come centri di cultura fra Rinascimento e Barocco, ed. Gianna Pomata and Gabriella Zarri (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2005) pp. 313-330; “De cura feminarum: Augustine the Bishop, North African Women, and the Development of a Theology of Female Nature,” Augustinian Studies 36 (2005) 87-98; “Introduction” to Anne Catherine Emmerich, The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (New York: Barnes and Noble, 2006) Library of Essential Reading Series; "Teaching Virtue from the Ignoble Nobility: Alberto Alfieri's Ogdoas (1421)," in Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy Duquesnay Adams, ed. Stephanie Hayes-Healy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) vol. 1 pp. 231-247; Italy Review Chapter for The Yale Guide to Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition, Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries, ed. Alistair Minnis and Rosamond Voaden (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming); Co-editor, The New Cambridge History of the Bible vol 2. (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); Co-editor of a critical edition and translation of and commentary on Alberto Alfieri’s Ogdoas (MART, Arizona State University, forthcoming).

Research Interests

History of Christian Culture; Christian Biblical Interpretation; Spirituality and Mysticism;

Women and Religion

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