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Edith Ann Matter, professionally; E. Ann Matter (born December 29, 1949)[1] is a Professor Emerita, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters at the University of Pennsylvania, and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor.[2] Matter's expertise lies in Medieval Christianity and focuses on mysticism, sexuality and religion, Woman and Christianity, manuscript and text studies, as well as biblical and musical interpretations.[3] Generally, Matter's research focuses on the context of femininity in the pre-modern era and how that coincides with Christianity. Outside of her own research and publications, Matter has been a featured editor, author, and source in many other texts. She has served on numerous editorial boards, including the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Encyclopedia of woman in World Religions, the Journal of Medieval Latin, as well as an editor for the Medieval Feminist Forum.[2]
Education
[edit]E. Ann Matter received a B.A. in Religion at Oberlin College, graduating in 1971. She would go to study at Yale University, where she received her M.A. in 1974, M.Phil. in 1975, and Ph.D in 1976.[4] All of Matter's consecutive degrees would surround Religious studies. She was taught under the direction of Jaroslav Pelikan, a scholar of Theology and medieval intellectual history at Yale University.[5]
Career
[edit]In 1976, after Matter's completion of her Ph.D, she began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. First as an Assistant Professor from 1976-82, then as an Associate Professor from 1982-90, and by 1995, a full time professor at UPenn.[6] Matter would eventually gain more recognition as a religious scholar, where in 1996, she was selected R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies.
Prior to her position as R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies, in 1992, Matter was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship[4] and in 2003, she was selected for fellowship by the Medieval Academy of America.[2]
By 2005, Matter would be appointed William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Religious studies.[6] The following year (2006) Matter would be selected, Associate Dean for Arts & Letter's. This position would put all 12 of the University's humanities departments under the direction of Matter.[4]
Publications
[edit]Author
[edit]Matter plays a role in many publications, encyclopedias, and translations. She published, The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.[7]
Translator
- 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
- 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
- Alberto Alfieri, Education, Civic Virtue, and Colonialism in Fifteenth-Century Italy: The Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011
Editor or Co-editor
[edit]- Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994
- The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, Western Michigan University, 2001
- Mind Matters: Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish, Turnhout, 2009
- The New Cambridge History of the Bible, Vol. II: From 600 to 1450, Cambridge University Press, 2012
- 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
References
[edit]- ^ "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ a b c "05/02/06, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters: Ann Matter - Almanac, Vol. 52, No. 32". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ "Brownlee Term Chair for Dr. Matter". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ a b c "E. Ann Matter | Department of Religious Studies". rels.sas.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ "Jaroslav Pelikan", Wikipedia, 2024-09-13, retrieved 2024-11-01
- ^ a b "05/02/06, Associate Dean for Arts and Letters: Ann Matter - Almanac, Vol. 52, No. 32". almanac.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ Louth, A. (1992-03-01). "Ann W. Astell, The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages; E. Ann Matter, The Voice of My Beloved: the Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity". Literature and Theology. 6 (1): 95–96. doi:10.1093/litthe/6.1.95. ISSN 0269-1205.