Ann W. Astell | |
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President of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion | |
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Preceded by | Wolfgang Palaver |
Succeeded by | Jeremiah Alberg |
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Born | Ann Winifred Astell January 28,1952 Fort Atkinson,Wisconsin,U.S. |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2001) |
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Thesis | The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Alger Doane |
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Ann Winifred Astell (born January 28,1952) is an American literary scholar and theologian. A 2001 Guggenheim Fellow,she specializes in literature and religion,has worked as a professor at Purdue University and at University of Notre Dame,and has served as president of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (2011–2012) and Colloquium on Violence &Religion (2011–2015).
Ann Winifred Astell was born in Fort Atkinson,Wisconsin,on January 28,1952, [1] the daughter of legal secretary and Johnson Hill Press proofreader Mary ( née Schiferl) and popcorn farmer John Malcolm Astell. [2] [3] She attended Jefferson High School,where she was salutatorian and won a local Associated Press student writing contest two times in a row. [4] [5] She later obtained her BS (1974) in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW) and took a break from higher education to teach language arts at religious school in the Milwaukee area. [1] [6] She obtained her MA (1981) in English literature at Marquette University,where she also taught literature and rhetorical modes,before returning to UW to get her PhD (1987) in medieval English literature;her dissertation The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages was supervised by Alger Doane. [6] [1]
In 1988,she started working in Purdue University as an assistant professor,before being promoted to associate professor in 1991 and full professor in 1995. [6] In 2007,she moved to University of Notre Dame,where she was now Professor of Theology. [6] She was the Purdue Department of English's director of graduate studies (1997–2000) and the Notre Dame Department of Theology's director of undergraduate studies (2016–2019),and she became part of Purdue's university senate in 2001 and Notre Dame's Academic Council in 2018. [1] [6]
She has authored the books Job,Boethius,and Epic Truth (1994), The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (1994), Chaucer and the Universe of Learning (1996), Political Allegory in Late Medieval England (1999), Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship (2003),and Eating Beauty (2006),and she has edited the volumes Divine Representations:Postmodernism and Spirituality (1994),Lay Sanctity,Medieval and Modern (2000), Joan of Arc and Spirituality (2003), Levinas and Medieval Literature (2009), Sacrifice,Scripture,and Substitution in Ancient Judaism and Christianity (2011), Magistra Doctissima (2013),and Saving Fear in Christian Spirituality (2020). [6] In 2001,she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship [7] for "a study of medieval asceticism,mysticism,and aesthetics". [1]
Although she had originally taught and written on literature and English studies at Purdue,she had switched to teaching theological subjects after joining Notre Dame. [6] In 2004,she held a public lecture on the history of Joan of Arc in film at the Religious Arts Festival in West Lafayette. [8] She served as president of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (2011–2012) and Colloquium on Violence &Religion (2011–2015). [6]
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