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]

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Education

Matter was educated at Oberlin College, where she received her B.A. in Religion (1971), and at Yale University, where she received her M.A. (1974), M.Phil. (1975), and Ph.D. (1976) in 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]

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References

  1. ↑ Birth date from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-09-21
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 E. Ann Matter – Curriculum vitae, University of Pennsylvania, retrieved 2020-09-21
  3. 1 2 3 "Brownlee Term Chair: Dr. Ann Matter", University of Pennsylvania Almanac, University of Pennsylvania, 42 (19), 6 February 1996
  4. 1 2 3 "Ann Matter: William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Religious Studies", University of Pennsylvania Almanac, University of Pennsylvania, 52 (13), 22 November 2005
  5. ↑ "Associate Dean for Arts and Letters: Ann Matter", University of Pennsylvania Almanac, University of Pennsylvania, 52 (32), 2 May 2006
  6. ↑ Emmerson, Richard K.; Shailor, Barbara A.; Stuard, Susan Mosher; Caviness, Madeline H.; Heffernan, Thomas J.; McGinn, Bernard; Bouchard, Constance Brittain; Hamburger, Jeffrey F.; Lynch, Kathryn L.; Dutton, Paul; Holsinger, Bruce; Kupfer, Marcia; Klausner, David; Van Deusen, Nancy; Jordan, William Chester; Ziegler, Vickie (July 2004), "Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 2004", Speculum, 79 (3): 871–882, doi:10.1017/S0038713400090801, JSTOR   20463055
  7. ↑ Reviews of The Voice of My Beloved:
  8. ↑ Reviews of The Church of Solitude:
    • Fox, Bette-Lee (July 2002), Library Journal, 127 (12 ed.), p. 116
    • Rozier, Louise (Spring 2004), Italica, 81 (1): 106–107, doi:10.2307/27668885, JSTOR   27668885 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. ↑ Reviews of Una mistica contestata:
    • Amaini, Maria Elisabetta (2012), Lettere Italiane, 64 (4): 634–639, JSTOR   26240089 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Coletti, Chiara (January–June 2013), Rivista di storia della Chiesa in Italia, 67 (1): 237–240, JSTOR   26154980 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Weddle, Saundra (Spring 2013), The Sixteenth Century Journal, 44 (1): 278–279, JSTOR   24245345 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  10. ↑ Review of Education, Civic Virtue, and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy:
    • Black, Robert (2013), Renaissance Quarterly, 66 (2): 584–585, doi:10.1086/671589 CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  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:
  15. ↑ Reviews of From Knowledge to Beatitude:
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