Rate My Professor E. Ann Matter

Matter's research focuses on the history of Christianity in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, emphasizing spirituality and devotion, biblical exegesis, women's roles, sexuality in Christian history, and textual studies in Latin and Italian traditions. Her major publications include the monograph The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Medieval Christianity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990); edited volumes such as Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance (with John Coakley, 1994), The Liturgy of the Medieval Church (with Thomas Heffernan, 2001, revised 2005), Law and the Illicit in Medieval Society (with Ruth Mazo Karras and Joel Kaye, 2008), and Mind Matters: Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish (with others, 2009); and critical editions like Paschasii Radberti, De partu Virginis (1985). She has authored numerous articles on medieval exegesis, visionary women, and related topics. Matter received awards including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching (1981), Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), Leonore H. Williams Award (1999), and was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (2004). She served on editorial boards for University of Pennsylvania Press, TEAMS Commentary Series, Journal of Medieval Latin, and others.