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Education

PhD History, Northwestern University, 2021-present

MA History, Distinction, University of Bristol, 2016-2018

  • Dissertation: ‘The Body of Salvation: The Material Presentation of Salvation in Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo virtutum‘ supervised by Dr Ian Wei


BA History, 2:1, University of Bristol, 2012-2016

  • Dissertation: ‘Hildegard of Bingen’s Use of the Adam and Eve Motif in Scivias and Causae et curae: A Case Study in the Integration of her Spiritual and Temporal Thought’ supervised by Dr Anke Holdenried

Blog Posts

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    Publications

    ‘Reorienting Disorientation: Hildegard von Bingen’s Changing Depiction of the Erotic Female Body’ in Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2022)

    ‘Medieval Religious Women’ article for Introducing Medieval Christianity July 2020

    Projects

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    Research Projects 

    Conference Presentations

    • ‘Who Is She?: Hildegard of Bingen’s Apocalyptic Woman and the Crossed Boundaries of Women’s Bodies’, International Medieval Congress Leeds (July 2020, funded)

    • ‘The Many Voices of Hildegard’, Centre for Medieval Studies Conference, University of Bristol (February 2020)

    • ‘The Religious Significance of Food to Hildegard of Bingen’ Centre for Medieval Studies Conference, University of Bristol (February 2019)

    • ‘The Female Orgasm as Foreign Knowledge: Hildegard of Bingen’s Medical Theories’, Foreign Knowledge Conference, Ruhr-University Bochum (June 2018, funded) – summary published on H-Soz-Kult


    Conferences Organised

    • International Medieval Sermon Studies Symposium, May – July 2018

    • Centre for Medieval Studies Conference, University of Bristol, June 2017 – Feb 2018

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