E. Ann Matter

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E. Ann Matter (born December 29, 1949)[1] is former Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] She specializes in Medieval Christianity, including mysticism, women and religion, sexuality and religion, manuscript and textual studies, biblical interpretation and sacred music.[3]

Education

Matter was educated at

Religious Studies under the supervision of Jaroslav Pelikan.[2][3]

In 1976, Matter began to teach at the University of Pennsylvania, where, in 1996, she was elected R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies.[2][3] In 2005, Matter was appointed William R. Kenan Professor of Religious Studies[4] and in 2006 to the post of Associate Dean for Arts & Letters, with responsibility for all 12 of the University's humanities departments.[5]

In 1992, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship[2][4] and, in 2003, she was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.[2][6][4]

Books

Matter is the author of

  • The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990[7]

She is editor or translator of:

  • Paschasius Radbertus, De partu Virginis, Brepols, 1985
  • Grazia Deledda, La chiesa della solitudine, 1936, translated as The Church of Solitude, University of New York Press, 2002[8]
  • Lucy Brocadelli, Una mistica contestata: La Vita di Lucia da Narni (1476-1544) tra agiografia e autobiografia, with Gabriella Zarri, Ed. Storia e Lett., 2011[9]
  • Alberto Alfieri, Education, Civic Virtue, and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011[10]

She is also the editor or co-editor of

  • Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994[11]
  • The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, Western Michigan University, 2001[12]
  • Mind Matters: Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish, Turnhout, 2009[13]
  • The New Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. II: From 600 to 1450, Cambridge University Press, 2012[14]
  • From Knowledge to Beatitude: St. Victor, Twelfth-century Scholars, and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Grover A. Zinn, Jr, University of Notre Dame Press, 2013[15]

References

  1. ^ Birth date from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-09-21
  2. ^ a b c d e E. Ann Matter – Curriculum vitae, University of Pennsylvania, retrieved 2020-09-21
  3. ^ a b c "Brownlee Term Chair: Dr. Ann Matter", University of Pennsylvania Almanac, 42 (19), University of Pennsylvania, 6 February 1996
  4. ^ a b c "Ann Matter: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religious Studies", University of Pennsylvania Almanac, 52 (13), University of Pennsylvania, 22 November 2005
  5. ^ "Associate Dean for Arts and Letters: Ann Matter", University of Pennsylvania Almanac, 52 (32), University of Pennsylvania, 2 May 2006
  6. S2CID 164170485
  7. ^ Reviews of The Voice of My Beloved:
  8. ^ Reviews of The Church of Solitude:
    • Fox, Bette-Lee (July 2002), Library Journal, vol. 127 (12 ed.), p. 116
    • Rozier, Louise (Spring 2004), Italica, 81 (1): 106–107,
      JSTOR 27668885{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link
      )
  9. ^ Reviews of Una mistica contestata:
  10. ^ Review of Education, Civic Virtue, and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy:
  11. ^ Reviews of Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy:
  12. ^ Reviews of The Liturgy of the Medieval Church:
  13. ^ Reviews of Mind Matters:
  14. ^ Review of The New Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. II:
    • Elliott, J.K. (2015), Novum Testamentum, 57 (4): 431–439,
      JSTOR 24735651{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link
      )
  15. ^ Reviews of From Knowledge to Beatitude:
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