Newman

Barbara Newman is Professor of English, Religion, and Classics at Northwestern University. She is widely recognized as an international expert on female religious figures of the Middle Ages and their mystical and visionary experience. She has been the recipient of a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and has held a Rockefeller Foundation Residency; for 2003–06 she was Northwestern University’s Charles Deering McCormick Chair of Teaching Excellence. Her many influential books include Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard’s Theology of the Feminine (1987); From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (1995); Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World (1998); and God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (2005). The last-mentioned title has just been awarded the Medieval Academy of America’s Charles H. Haskins Medal. Professor Newman is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.