E. Ann Matter, Résumé

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Qualifications
• Professional Memberships
• Previous Positions
• Honors and Awards
• Research and Expertise
• Other Expertise
• Selected Publications

Summary

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E-Mail:amatter@ccat.sas.upenn.edu

Qualifications

• B.A., Religion, Oberlin College, 1971;
• M.A., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1975;
• M.Phil., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1975;
• Ph.D., Religious Studies, Yale University, 1976

Professional Memberships

• Medieval Academy of America;
• Delaware Valley Medieval Association;
• American Academy of Religion;
• Modern Languages Association
• American Association of University Professors (AAUP);
• American Association of University Women

Previous Positions

• 1982-1990, University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor;
• 1976-1982, University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor;
• 1979, Weston School of Theology, Visiting Scholar;
• 1983-1986 and 1987-1990, Haverford College, Visiting Associate Professor;
• 1993, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy, Visiting Professor

Honors and Awards

• Whiting Fellowship for the Humanities, Yale University, 1975-1976;
• American Philosophical Society Grants, 1977, 80, 84;
• American Council of Learned Societies, Summer Grant, 1978;
• University of Pennsylvania Research Council Grants 1978, 86, 89, 90, 92;
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, 1979, 88;
• Annenberg Research Institute Fellowship, 1992;
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1996;
• Leonore H. Williams Award, Association of Women Faculty and Administrators, University of Pennsylvania, April, 1999;
• Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, University of Pennsylvania, 1981;
• Outstanding Teaching Award, College Alumni Society, UPenn, 1995;
•  Elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, March, 2003;
• R. Jean Brownlee Term Professor of Religious Studies, 1996-2001.

Research and Expertise

• history of Christian culture, from the middle ages to the 17th century;
• history of interpretation of the Bible;
• spirituality and mysticism in the Christian tradition from the middle ages to the present;
• women in Christian history;
• sexuality in Christian history;
• medieval manuscript and textual studies;
• music in the history of Christianity.

Other Expertise

• University of Pennsylvania Press, Faculty Editorial Board, 1991-95;
• TEAMS Editorial Board (Medieval Academy of America), 1991- (Editor of Commentary Series) 
• Sacris Erudiri: A Journal on the Inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity Advisory Board;
• Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions, (Simon & Schuster), Christianity Editor;
• The Middle Ages: A Dictionary for Schools, Advisory Board

Selected Publications

• The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), paper edition, 1992;
• Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance, co-editor with John Coakley (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994);
• The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, co-editor with Thomas Heffernan (Kalamazoo, MI: The Medieval Institute Press, for TEAMS, 2001; second revised edition, 2005);
• Paschasii Radberti, De partu Virginis, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, continuatio medievalis 56C (Turnhout, Belgium, 1985) (Latin).
  
• Lucia Brocadelli da Narni, “Liber” (Seven Revelations) text and introduction in Archivum fratrum Praedicatorum LXXI (2001) 311-344 (with Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner and Armando Maggi) (Italian);
•  Lucia Brocadelli da Narni, “Revelationes” (Seven Revelations) for Dominican Penitent Women, ed. Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner (New York: Paulist Press, forthcoming, 2005);
• "Political Prophecy as Repression: Lucia Brocadelli da Narni and Ercole d'Este," in Christendom and its Discontents, ed. S. Waugh (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) pp. 168-76;
• “Le Rivelazioni di Lucia Brocadelli da Narni,” Bollettino della Società Pavese di Storia Patria 100 (2000)   (with Armando Maggi, Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner, Gabriella Zarri) pp. 173-199.  (in Italian);
• Grazia Deledda, The Church of Solitude (La chiesa della solitudine, 1936), in the Women Writers in Translation Series, SUNY Press, , with Afterword (2002).
• Co-Editor (with Richard Marsden) of The New Cambridge History of the Bible vol. 2, The Middle Ages, projected for 2007;
•  3. Alberto Alfieri’s Ogdoas (1421), edition and translation with introduction, submitted to Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona  (with Carla P. Weinberg) (Latin).
  
  

See "Brownlee Term Chair: Dr. Ann Matter" in Almanac 42.19 (February 6, 1996)

Last modified, June 20, 1996