Contributors
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Ann W. Astell is Professor of English, a participating faculty member in the Religious Studies Program, and Director of Medieval Studies at Purdue University. A member of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary, she has published numerous books and articles on biblical spirituality, medieval literature, women mystics, and postmodernism and spirituality. astell@purdue.edu
Patricia Beckman is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she teaches history of Christianity, women and religions, and spirituality. Her accomplishments include securing committee approval for Mechthild’s text within the canon of the Honors College humanities sequence. She is currently working on a book that explores the rhetoric, performance, and authority of medieval women’s mystical works, focusing on Mechthild of Magdeburg and Margarete Ebner. beckmanp@missouri.edu
Judith Bishop holds an MA in Religion and Cultural Studies from Vanderbilt University, and is currently completing a dissertation on the images of female sanctity in the hagiography of early Medieval Ireland at the Graduate Theological Union. Ms. Bishop has taught at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. jbishop@gtu.gtulink.edu
Florence Bourg teaches systematic theology and ethics and the College of Mount Saint Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the author of Where Two or Three are Gathered: Christian Families as Domestic Churches (University of Notre Dame, 2004). She holds a Ph.D. in theology from Boston College. florence_bourg@mail.msj.edu
Laurie Cava-Smith is a financial controller in the Bay Area. She is also a well-known P.A.D.I. Scuba Instructor and Underwater Photographer — her work has taken first place in several underwater photographic competitions. In addition to extensive travel to Borneo, Indonesia, New Guinea, Malaysia, Belize, and the Sea of Cortez, she also dives regularly in Monterey, California. ladydiver1@yahoo.com
Joseph P. Chinnici, OFM, Professor of Church History at the Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, is published widely in the field of American Catholic spirituality. His published articles in early Franciscan history and spirituality include “Poverty: An Image for the Franciscan Presence in the World” (Laurentianum, 41.3, 2000, 413–37). jchinnici@fst.edu
Lorenzo DeStefano is a photographer and theatre, and film director. His recent documentary “Los Zafiros/The Sapphires-Music From the Edge of Time” received its World Film Festival Premiere in Havana, Cuba in December, 2002. DeStefano has also photographed for the popular HBO show “Six Feet Under,” as well as capturing images during his travels—here, from a collection of photographs which powerfully convey his impressions of contemporary Cuba. http://lorenzodestefano.com [End Page 120]
Rachel Fulton is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago and author of From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800–1200 (Columbia University Press, 2002). She is currently the recipient of a Mellon New Directions Fellowship for interdisciplinary training in cognitive and evolutionary psychology, on the basis of which she is at work on a study of the cognitive and phenomenological effects of the practice of prayer in the medieval West. rfulton@uchicago.edu
Tamie Harkins, whose photograph in this issue was created in Oslo, Norway, particularly enjoys photographing human beings and human artifacts. She can be reached at tamiemarieharkins@yahoo.com
Kevin Hart is Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame where he directs the Program in Religion and Literature. His most recent books are Postmodernism (Oneworld, 2004) and The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (Chicago UP, 2003). His poems are collected in Flame Tree: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2003). Kevin.J.Hart.33@nd.edu
Amy Hollywood is Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996) and Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002). Hollywood is currently working on a book dealing with the relationship between mourning, trauma, and Christian mysticism. amh@uchicago.edu
Michael Jackson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, and has carried out ethnographic...
