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Notes on Contributors
Virginia Blanton is associate professor of English at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where she serves as doctoral faculty in English and religious studies. Her research focuses on medieval hagiography and religious ritual. She is the author of Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval England, 695–1615 (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007), which was awarded the Society of Medieval Feminist Scholarship First Book Prize in 2008.
Jennifer N. Brown is assistant professor of medieval and early modern literature in the English department at Marymount Manhattan College. Her book Three Women of Liège: A Critical Edition of and Commentary on the Middle English Lives of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Christina Mirabilis, and Marie d'Oignies was published in 2008 by Brepols Publishers in their series Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts.
H. M. Canatella is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston and is pursuing her graduate certificate in women's studies. She specializes in medieval women's history and in world history. Her dissertation focuses on male-female spiritual friendship during the eleventh and twelfth centuries in both the Anglo-Norman and French worlds. Her article "Friendship in Anselm of Canterbury's Correspondence: Ideals and Experience," appeared in Viator 38, no. 2 (2007).
Christina Christoforatou is assistant professor of English at Baruch College (City University of New York), where she teaches medieval literature—western European and Byzantine—as well as manuscript studies and medieval cosmology. Her interests range broadly over Byzantine intellectual history and literature from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. She has published on Byzantine narrative fiction, desire and eroticism in late [End Page 194] antiquity, and constructions of sovereignty in Byzantine secular literature. Her current research involves iconographic distortions of sovereignty from Pindar to Byzantium.
Megan Mclaughlin is associate professor of history, gender and women's studies, medieval studies, and religious studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Consorting with Saints: Prayer for the Dead in Early Medieval France (Cornell University Press, 1994). She has recently completed a new book, Sex, Gender and Authority in the Central Middle Ages, under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Nicole R. Rice is associate professor of English at St. John's University. She is the author of Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2008) as well as articles on Middle English devotional texts and religious drama. She is currently editing an essay collection on the afterlives of Middle English spiritual writings and coauthoring a book on drama and artisanal identity in late medieval York and Chester.
Michelle M. Sauer is associate professor of English at the University of North Dakota. She publishes regularly on anchoritism, mysticism, asceticism, hagiography, church history, and queer theory, including in the recent Companion to British Poetry before 1600 (Facts on File, 2008). Current projects include an edition of the "Wooing Group" and an edited collection entitled The Pre-Modern Lesbian.
Sally N. Vaughn is professor of history at the University of Houston. Her work centers on Saint Anselm of Bec and Canterbury. Most recently she has published St. Anselm and the Handmaidens of God: A Study of Anselm's Correspondence with Women (Brepols, 2002) and edited with Jay Rubenstein Teaching and Learning in Northern Europe 1000–1200 (Brepols, 2006). She is currently writing Archbishop Anselm for the new Ashgate series on the archbishops of Canterbury and a study of the students and teachers of Bec. [End Page 195]
