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LISA M. BITEL

Dean’s Professor of Religion

& Professor of History

University of Southern California

3520 Trousdale Parkway

Los Angeles, CA 90089-0034

Tel: 213-821-2150

Email: bitelusc.edu

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Ph.D., History (1987)

Harvard University, A.M., History (1983)

University College, Dublin, National University of Ireland (1981)

Smith College, A.B., History (1980)

EMPLOYMENT

Professor of History, University of Southern California (2001-)

and Religion (2008-)

and Gender Studies (2002-2010)

Chair, School of Religion (2017-19)

Chair, Gender Studies, University of Southern California (2007-10)

Professor, History and Women’s Studies, University of Kansas (2000-2001)

Director, Women’s Studies Program, University of Kansas (1999-2001)

Associate Professor, History and Women's Studies (1995-2000)

Assistant Professor, History and Women's Studies (1990-95)

Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University (1987-89, 1991-92)

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HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

National and International:

Fellow (elected), Medieval Academy of America (2015)

ACLS Fellowship (2010-11)

Borchard Foundation Grant (2008-09)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2000-01)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1994-95)

Irish American Cultural Institute Faculty Fellowship (1993)

American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid (1992)

National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant (1991)

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies (1986)

ITT International Fellowship to Ireland (1980-81)

Regional and Local:

Dean’s Professor of Religion (2018-)

Senior Fellow, USC Society of Fellows in the Humanities (2016-19)

Senior Fellow, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC (2006-14)

Fellow, Center for Excellence in Research, USC (2008-10)

Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, USC (2003-2007)

James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Grant, USC (2003)

Institute for Multimedia Literacy Fellow, USC (2006, 2002)

Keeler Intra-University Professorship, University of Kansas (1998)

Hall Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, University of Kansas, (1997)

New Faculty Award, University of Kansas (1994)

Sheldon Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University (1985-86)

GSAS Merit Fellowship, Harvard University (1984-85)

Jens Aubrey Westengard Fellowship, Harvard University (1983)

Phi Beta Kappa (1980)

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RESEARCH

Books - Monographs:

Our Lady of the Rock: Vision and Pilgrimage in the Mojave Desert. With

photographs by Matt Gainer. (Cornell University Press, Feb 2015.)

Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare

Christianized Barbarian Europe (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Women in Early Medieval Europe, 300-1100 (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (Cornell University

Press, 1996; paperback edition, 1998)

Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early

Ireland (Cornell University Press, 1990; paperback edition, 1994; Cork

University Press imprint, 1994; History Book Club, 1994)

Edited Books and Volumes:

Sacred Voices, Sacred Vision (by June Mecham.) Coedited with Alison

Beach and Constance Berman. (Brepols, Nov, 2014.)

Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary Technologies in Religious and

Cultural Contexts, special issue of journal Visual Resources

(2009.)

Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives, co-ed.

with Felice Lifshitz (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007/8).

In Progress:

Unseen: Christianization and the Supernatural in Earlier Europe. Monograph.

Otherworld: The Religious Supernatural in Early Medieval Ireland. Multimedia

publication of new translations and scholarly analysis, hosted on Scalar.

Articles, Chapters, Essays

“Secrets of the Síd,” in Small Gods, ed. Michael Ostling (Palgrave, 2017.)

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“Seeing the Invisible God: Discerning the Supernatural in the History of Christian

Visionary Experience,” in Supernatural Religion, ed. Jeffrey Kripal (Cengage,

2017).

“Scripture in the Sky: Marian Photography at Our Lady of the Rock,” Material

Religion (Winter 2015.)

“Gender and the Initial Christianization of Europe,” in Judith Bennet and Ruth

Karras, eds., Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

(Oxford, 2013).

“Material Environment of Christian Visions in Early Medieval Europe,” in Colum

Hourihane, ed., Looking Beyond: Visions, Dreams and Insights in Medieval

Art and History (Index of Christian Art, Princeton Univ Press, 2010).

“Scenes from a Cult in the Making: Lady of the Rock, 2008,” with images by Matt

Gainer, also in Hourihane, Looking Beyond (2010).

“Looking the Wrong Way: Authenticity and Proof of Religious Vision,” with

images by Matt Gainer, in Bitel, ed., Visualizing the Invisible: Visionary

Technologies in Religious and Cultural Contexts, (2009): 69-92.

“Professing Religion and Gender in Medieval Europe,” in Bitel and Lifshitz, Gender

and Christianity, (2008).

“Period Trouble: The Impossibility of Feminist History,” in Celia Chazelle and

Felice Lifshitz, eds., Paradigms, Methods, and Periodization in Late Ancient

and Early Medieval Studies: A Reconsideration (Brill, 2008), 299-328.

“Tools and Scripts for Cursing in Early and Medieval Ireland,” Memoirs of the

American Academy in Rome 51/52 (2006/7): 5-27.

“Ekphrasis at Kildare: The Imaginative Architecture of a Seventh-Century

Hagiographer,” Speculum 79 (July 2004), 605-627.

“Hail Brigit!: Gender, Authority, and Worship in Early Ireland," in Alan Hayes

and Diane Urqhuart, eds., Irish Women’s History (Irish Academic Press,

2003), 1-14.

“Body of a Saint, Story of a Goddess: Origins of the Brigidine Tradition,” Textual

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Practice 16 (2002), 209-228.

“Landscape, Gender, and Ethnogenesis in Pre-(Norman) Invasion Ireland,” in

Scenes and Season: Landscapes in the Middle Ages, ed. Michael Wolfe

and John M. Howe (University of Florida Press, 2002).

“Saints and Angry Neighbors: The Politics of Cursing in the Irish Saints’ Lives,” in

Sharon Farmer and Barbara Rosenwein, eds., Monks and Nuns, Saints

and Outcasts (Cornell University Press, 2000).

"Women in Early Medieval Northern Europe," in Susan Stuard et al., eds.,

Becoming Visible (3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 105-28.

"Tír inna mBan: Domestic Space and the Frontiers of Gender in Early Ireland,"

in Hagith Sivan, ed., Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, the Early

Byzantine Empire, and the Early Middle Ages (Variorum, 1996), 242-55.

"Domestic Economies and Gender Ideology in Early Ireland," in Samuel Cohn

and Steven Epstein, eds., Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living:

Essays in Honor of David Herlihy (Ann Arbor, 1996).

"`Do Not Marry the Fat Short One': The Early Irish Wisdom on Women,"

Journal of Women's History 6/7 (Winter/Spring 1995), 137-59.

"`Conceived in Sins, Born in Delights': Stories of Procreation from Early

Ireland," Journal of the History of Sexuality 3 (1992), 181-202.

"In Visu Noctis: Dreams in European Hagiography and Histories, 450-900,"

History of Religions (1991), 39-59.

"Women's Monastic Enclosures in Early Ireland: A Study of Female Spirituality

and Male Monastic Mentalities" Journal of Medieval History 12 (1986)

“Women's donations to the churches in early Ireland,” Journal of the Royal

Society of Antiquairies of Ireland 114 (1984), 5-23.

Articles forthcoming:

“Irish Monasticism,” in Cambridge Handbook of Medieval Monasticism ed. Alison

Beach and Isabelle Cochelin (forthcoming 2017/8).

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Articles in progress:

“Knock, Knock! Who’s There? Joe Coleman and His Angry Virgin Mary.”

Minor/popular publications:

“10 Things You Should Know About Saint Patrick,” The Conversation

(https://theconversation.com/10-things-to-know-about-the-real-st-patrick-

92253) (March 12, 2018).

“The ‘real’ St. Valentine was no patron of love,” The Conversation

(https://theconversation.com) (February 13, 2018.)

“What a medieval love saga says about modern-day sexual harassment,” The

Conversation (https://theconversation.com) (January 16, 2018.)

“We Remain: Polin, Museum of the History of Polish Jews,” Los Angeles Review of

Books (Mar 31 2015.)

“Some Important Things About Brent Plate’s History of Religion in 5-1/2 Objects,”

Religion and Culture Web Forum, Martin Marty Center, Univ. of Chicago

(Mar 2014.)

"Can You Tell Me Who The Villains Are?": Rock and Religion, Irish-Style.” Religion

Dispatches (Nov 2011.)

“Our Lady of Good Hope and Excellent Behavior: Why this Apparition and Why

Now? Religion Dispatches (Mar 2011.)

“Virgins for Sale,” Journal of Women's History 19, no. 2 (2007): 170-177

“Feminist Theory,” “Gender,” “Ireland,” in Susan Stuard et al., eds., Women and

Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (Taylor and Francis, 2006.)

“Early Medieval Monasticism,” in James S. Donnelly, Jr. et al, eds., Encyclopedia of

Ireland. Volume One: Nations of the World (New York, 2003.)

"The Sorceress" as an Interpretive Tool in Medieval History Classes,” Medieval

Feminist Newsletter Subsidia Series 1 (2000) (Medieval Women in Film): 52-

56.

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"From Goddesses to Anabaptists: Christian and Pagan Women in Premodern

Europe", Journal of Women's History 10/3 (1998) 192-203.

“Ascetic Superstars (Irish nuns and monks),” Christian History 17:4 (Nov 1998), 22-

23.

“Cambridge" and "Oxford" in Franco Cardini and M. T. Fumagalli Beonio-

Brocchieri, eds., Antiche Università d'Europa: Storia e personaggi degli

Atenei nel Medio Evo (Milan, 1991), 62-77.

Reviews:

Maeve Callan, The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish, in Journal of Religion 97

(2017): 270-73.

Michael J. Enright, Prophecy and Kingship in Adomnán's “Life of Saint Columba,” in

Speculum 90 (Aug 2015): 242-244.

Sarah Sheehan and Ann Dooley, Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland, in TMR

(Aug 2015).

Michael Bailey, Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies, in TMR (9 Feb 2015).

Giselle de Nie, Poetics of Wonder: Testimonies of the New Christian Miracles in the

Late Antique Latin World in TMR (14 May 2014).

Tómas Ó Carragáin, Churches in Early Medieval Ireland: Architecture, Ritual and

Memory in Catholic Historical Review 98 (2012): 781-783.

Megan McLaughlin, Sex, gender, and episcopal authority in an age of reform, 1000-

1122 in American Historical Review (Dec 2011): 1557-58.

Malcolm Lambert, Christians and Pagans: The Conversion of Britain from Alban to

Bede in Church History 80: 3 (2011): 642-44.

David Wyatt, Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland in Speculum 86

(2011): 285-287.

Daniel McCarthy, The Irish Annals: Their Genesis, Evolution and History in

Speculum 85 (2010): 432-434.

N. J. Higham, A Frontier Landscape: The North West in the Middle Ages in TMR

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(6 Oct 2010)

"No Alliance by Marriage ... or Amour": Women in the Two Medieval Irelands

(review of Gillian Kenny, Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland, c.

1170-1540) on H-Albion (http://www.h-net.org/~albion/) (Nov 2008).

Robin Chapman Stacey, Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland

in Law and History Review 26:3 (2008).

Catherine Thom, Early Irish Monasticism: An Understanding of Its Cultural Roots,

in Journal of Religion 88:2 (2008).

A. Mulder-Bakker and J. Wogan-Browne, Household, Women, and

Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in TMR (7 Sept 2009).

Ailbhe Mac Samhradháin, ed., The Island of Saint Patrick in Catholic Historical

Review 92: 1 (2006): 105-106.

Leslie Brubaker and Julia M. H. Smith, eds. Gender in the Early Medieval World:

East and West, 300-900 in Histoire sociale. Social history 39 (2006):

515-16.

Jacques LeGoff, The Birth of Europe in Journal of British Studies 45 (2006), 139-40.

James Lydon, The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages in Speculum 80 (2005):

923.

Kathleen Biddick, The Typological Imaginary, in TMR (Jan 2005)

Dianne Hall, Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c. 1140-1540, in Catholic

Historical Review 90: 1 (2004): 104-106.

Michael Richter and Jean-Michel Picard, ed., Ogma in Speculum 79 (2004): 264-

265.

Ó Riain, Pádraig, ed. Four Irish Martyrologies in Catholic Historical Review 90: 1

(2004): 106-108.

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, Early Irish History and Chronology in TMR (Apr 2003)

Christina Harrington. Women in a Celtic Church: Ireland 450-1150, in Catholic

Historical Review 89: 4 (October 2003): 749-751.

Sarah Foot, Veiled Women, in Catholic Historical Review 88:2 (2002): 329-331.

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Susan Leigh Fry, Burial in Medieval Ireland 900-1500, in Speculum 77:2 (2001), 531.

John Kitchen, Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in

Merovingian Hagiography in Religious Studies Review 26, 4 (Oct 2000): 385-386.

Mary Dockray-Miller, Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England, in

TMR (Jan 2005)

Brendan Smith, ed., Britain and Ireland 900-1300: Insular Reponses to

Medieval European Change in Speculum 76: 3 (2001), 797-798.

Brendan Smith, Colonisation and Conquest in Medieval Ireland: The English in

Louth, 1170-1330 in Speculum 76: 3 (2001), 795-796.

Seán Duffy, Ireland in the Middle Ages, in TMR (Mar 2002).

Joanne Findon. A Woman’s Words: Emer and Female Speech in the Ulster Cycle, in

CSANA Newsletter, Spring 2000.

Catherine Mooney, Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters, in

Catholic Historical Review 86 (2000), 497-499.

Diane Watt, ed., Medieval Women in Their Communities (Toronto, 1998), in The

Historian 62 (Fall 1999): 202-204.

Jo Ann McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia (Harvard,

1996), in Biography 21.1 (Winter 1998).

Doris Edel, ed., Cultural Identity and Cultural Integration: Ireland and Europe in

the Early Middle Ages, (Blackrock, Ireland, 1995) Catholic Historical Review

83: 4 (Oct 1997), 754-55.

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 (London, 1995) and Michael

Richter, Medieval Ireland: The Enduring Tradition (New York, 1995), in

Speculum 72 (Oct 1997): 1217- 18.

Peter Berresford Ellis, Celtic Women: Women in Celtic Society and Literature

(Grand Rapids,MI, 1995), in The Historian 60: 2 (Winter, 1998), 427-28.

Steven F. Kruger, Dreaming in the Middle Ages (Princteon, 1994) and Patricia Cox

Miller, Dreams in Late Antiquity (1995), in Journal of the History of the

Behavioral Sciences 33 (1997), 198-200.

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Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization in Catholic Historical Review 83

(Apr 1997), 299-300.

N. B. Aitchison, Armagh and the Royal Centres in Catholic Historical Review 82

(Jul. 1996), 512-14.

Nerys Patterson, Cattle-Lords and Clansmen (Notre Dame, 1995), in Speculum 71

(1996), 188- 201.

Robin Chapman Stacey, The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval

Ireland and Wales (Philadelphia, 1994), in Speculum 70 (1995), 680-83.

John Ryan, Irish Monasticism: Origins and Early Development (1931, repr. 1992)

and Brendan Lehane, Early Celtic Christianity (1961, repr. 1994), in Peritia:

Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland 9 (1995).

Harold Mytum, The Origins of Early Christian Ireland (London and New York,

1992), in Gnomon 66:6 (1994), 569-70.

Art Cosgrove, ed., New History of Ireland, vol. 2: Medieval Ireland, 1169-1534

(Oxford, 1993), in Speculum 69: 4 (Oct., 1994), 1147-49.

Liam de Paor, St. Patrick's World: the Christian Culture of Ireland's Apostolic Age

(Notre Dame, 1993), in Catholic Historical Review 80: 3 (Jul 1994), 567-69

Huw Pryce, Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales (Oxford, 1993), in The

Historian 56: 3 (Spring, 1994), 606-607.

Emma Mason, St. Wulfstan of Worcester, c. 1008-1095 (Oxford, 1990), Speculum

68: 1 (Jan 1993), 209-211.

Peter Harbison, Pilgrimage in Ireland: The Monuments and the People (Syracuse

University, 1992), in Catholic Historical Review 78: 4 (Oct 1992), 625-26.

Richard Sharpe, Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to "Vitae Sanctorum

Hiberniae" (Oxford, 1991), in Catholic Historical Review 78: 2 (Apr 1992),

278-80.

Walter Horn, Jenny White Marshall, and Grellan D. Rourke et al., The Forgotten

Hermitage of Skellig Michael (Berkeley, 1991), in Catholic Historical

Review 77: 3 (Jul 1991), 499-500.

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Shulamith Shahar, Childhood in the Middle Ages (London and New York, 1990), in

Envoi 3: 1 (Spr 1991), 221-27.

Fergus Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law (Dublin, 1988), in Speculum 66: 1 (Jan 1991),

180-82.

Lynette Olson, Early Monasteries in Cornwall (Suffolk, 1989) in CSANA Newsletter,

1990.

PRESENTATIONS

International, National, Invited

“Did the Medieval Irish Believe in Saints?” Plenary speaker, Ferns Heritage Annual

Conference, Ferns, Ireland (Oct 2018)

“Irish Models for European Christianization,” Medieval Academy of America,

Philadelphia (Mar 2019)

“The Problem with Pagans in Early Ireland,” Melbourne University Irish Studies

Center (Mar 2016)

“How to Be a Medieval Visionary,” Getty Center (Oct 2013).

“Knock Knock, Who’s There? Joe Coleman and His Angry Apparition,”

Keogh-McNaughton Lecture, Center for Irish Studies, Notre Dame

University (Oct 2013).

“Mary in the Mojave: Visionary Religion in 21st-Century America,” plenary

address, Association Française d’Études Américaines, Congrès 2013 –

Angers: "Religion et spiritualité" (May 2013.)

“The Bishop Who Wasn’t: Deception and Discernment in the Hinterlands of

Christendom,” Medieval Academy of America, Knoxville (Apr 2013.) (N.B.

Also panel organizer.)

“Away with the Fairies, or: I Must Have Taken a Wrong Turn at Tír na nÓg.

Religion and the Irish Otherworld,” Melbourne University (Feb

2013).

“I’m Taking my Statue and Going Home: Marian Apparitions in California

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City,” Duke University, Conference on Religious Visions (Apr

2011.)

“Marian Apparitions Before and After Lourdes,” Catholic Historical

Association annual meeting, San Diego, Jan 2010 (N.B. Also panel

organizer.)

“Virgin of the Rocks: Faith and Vision in the California Desert,”

American Anthropological Association, San Francisco (Nov 2008).

“Nun-Spotting: Reform and Religious Identity in Early Medieval Ireland,” Borchard

Foundation Conference on Religious Women in the Pre-Modern World,

Missillac, France (June 2008) (N.B. Conference co-organizer.)

“Redefining Religious Women,” Berkshire Women’s History Conference,

Minneapolis (June 2008).

“Iconography of a Modern Desert Vision,” conference on Visions, Dreams, and

Insights in History and Art History, Princeton University, (Mar 2008) (N.B.

Conference co-organizer.)

“Trading Gendered Places: The Locations of Medieval Monastic Reform,”

Foundations of Medieval Monasticism, UCLA (Jan 2008).

Panelist, “The Future of European Women’s History,” American Historical

Association, Washington, DC, (Jan 2008).

“Gendering the Search for Religious Women: Monastic Matrix,” Databases and

Medieval Scholarship, Princeton University (June 2007.)

Commentator, double panel on “Visualizing the Invisible,” American

Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Jose (Oct 2006)

“Kildare After St. Brigit,” presented to Irish Studies Program, Princeton University

(Mar 2005).

“Sisterhood is Powerful in Cyberspace: Feminist Theory and Electronic

Collaboration,” Modern Language Association annual meeting,

Philadelphia (Dec 2004).

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“Period Trouble: The Impossibility of Teaching Feminist Medieval History,”

Medieval Academy of America annual meeting, Minneapolis (Apr 2003)

“The Mechanics of Cursing in Early Medieval Ireland,” American Academy in

Rome (Mar 2001).

“Gender and Geography in Some Very Early Medieval Saints’ Lives,” Fordham

University (Feb 2001).

“From Virgin Saint to Fertility Goddess: The Paganization of Brigit,” Fordham

University (Feb 2001).

“The Gendering of Lanscape in Some Early Irish Texts,” International Medieval

Irish History Colloquium, Notre Dame University (Apr 2000).

“Landscape, Gender, and Ethnogenesis in Pre-Invasion Ireland,” at “Scenes and

Seasons: The Medieval Landscape,” Center for Medieval Studies,

Pennsylvania State University (Apr 1999).

“Brigit and Genovefa: Saints, Gender, and Christianization,” oston

College (Mar 1999).

"Saints at the Gate: Women Who Defied Barbarians and Saved Christian

Civilization,” American Historical Association,Washington, DC. (Jan 1999).

“Gender, Authority and Worship in Early Ireland,” Otago University,

New Zealand (Aug 1998).

“Teaching with Technology: The Matrix Project,” Otago University,

New Zealand, (Aug 1998).

“From the Ground up: Writing a New History of Medieval Women,” Canterbury

University, New Zealand (Aug 1998).

“Woe to Him with an Angry Saint for a Neighbor!” Auckland University, (Aug

1998).

"The Maiden Who Crossed the River Suck: Female Hermits and Religious

Community in Early Ireland," American Historical Association, Atlanta (Jan

1996).

"Saints in Space: Flight, Sanctity, and the Vocabulary of the Heavens in Early

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Ireland," at "Saints: Domestic and Foreign," UCLA (May, 1995).

“The Land of Women: Domestic Space and the Frontiers of Gender in Early

Ireland," conference: "Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, the Early

Byzantine Empire, and the Early Middle Ages," University of Kansas (Mar

1995).

"Bishop Brigit and the Christianizing Women of Early Ireland," American

Historical Association, New York (Dec 1990).

"`Conceived in Sins, Born in Delights': Stories of Procreation from Early Ireland,"

Celtic Studies Association of North America, UCLA (May 1990).

Presentations - Regional and Local:

“The Best Digital Project You Never Knew: The Past and Future of Medievalist

Digital Research,” Medieval Association of the Pacific (March, 2o17).

“Artefacts of the Medieval Invisible: A Case Study from Ireland,” Conference: The

Supernatural in Religious Contexts, USC (also organizer) (Feb 2015).

“Learning to Look Like Christians: Technologies of Spiritual Discernment in the

21st-Century Mojave Desert,” Objects of Devotion, UCIrvine (Dec 2014).

“The Virgin Mary Magnified,” panel presentation, Institute for Advanced Catholic

Studies, USC (Oct 2014).

“Our Lady of the Rock,” California American Studies Association, Berkeley (Apr

2014).

“Knock, Knock, Who’s There: Joe Coleman, 21st-Century Irish Visionary,” IRG-

CRCC Working Group on Visual/Material Religions (Mar, 2012).

“The Long Haul of Gender Vision,” UCLA (Feb 2011).

“Bruised by the Saints: How Gregory of Tours Taught Christians What to See,”

conference: “Sensing the Gods: Materiality, Perception and the Divine,”

USC (N.B. also organizer) (Mar 2010).

“Gendered Dreaming in Early Medieval Europe,” conference: “Visions of the Night:

Remembering, Transmitting, and Interpreting Dreams in the Pre-Modern

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World,” Center for Religion and Civic Culture, USC (also co-organizer) (Apr

2009)

“Gender Climate and Digital Scholarship,” USC conference on Digital Scholarship,

(Sept 2007).

“Looking the Wrong Way,” Visionaries and Vision-Hunters, USC, Feb 2007. (also

conference organizer) (Mar 2007)

“St. Brigit in Cyberspace: Iconography in the Electronic Age,” California

Celtic Colloquium (Mar 2004).

“Religious Geography of Seventh-Century Ireland,” Center for Interdisciplinary

Studies, USC (Feb 2004).

“Brigit After the Seventh Century: A Saint with Three Heads?”, California

Celtic Colloquium, UCLA (March 2002).

“Body of a Saint, Story of a Goddess,” California Medieval Seminar, Huntington

Library (Feb 2002).

“The Problem of the Pigkeepers: Landscape and Gender in the Life of St.

Genovefa,” Nature and Culture Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities,

University of Kansas (Nov 2000).

“Women on the Millennial Frontiers of Europe,” Gender Seminar, Hall Center for

the Humanities, University of Kansas, Sept 1998.

“Mother Ireland: Landscape and Gender in Lebor Gabála Érenn,” Mid-America

Medieval Association (Feb 1999).

“Gender and the Barbarian Environment,” Pre-1500 Culture and Society Seminar,

Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas (Oct 1997).

"The Domestic Economy of Early Ireland," University of Kansas Social and

Economic History Seminar (Nov, 1992).

"Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood in Early Ireland," University of Kansas

Medieval Colloquium (Oct 1992).

"In Cella Seorsum: Early Irish Nuns and the Claustration Question," New England

Historical Association, Assumption College (Apr 1992).

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"In Visu Noctis: Dreams in European History and Historiography, 450-900,"

Midwestern Medieval Association, Notre Dame (Oct 1989).

“The Rhetoric of Rejection: Monastic Family and Blood-kin in Early Ireland,"

Tenth Annual Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College (Apr 1989).

"Spirituales Medici: Saints and Healers in Early Ireland," Harvard Celtic

Colloquium (May 1989).

"Sex, Sin, and Celibacy in Early Christian Ireland," Harvard Celtic Colloquium,

(May 1987).

PRIZES AND AWARDS

ABC-CLIO/ ALA Honorable Mention, Monastic Matrix (2009)

James Donnelly Sr. Prize for Best Book in History/Social Sciences, American

Conference in Irish Studies, for Land of Women (1997)

Byron Caldwell Smith Award for Best Book by a Kansan (biennial), for Land of

Women (1997)

National Commission on the Status of Women, Outstanding Woman Educator of

the Year, University of Kansas (1997)

TEACHING

REL 132g: Origins of Western Religions

REL 301: Introduction to Methods

REL 467: Topics in the Study of Christianity: Magic and the Supernatural

REL 502: Graduate Seminar: Introduction to Methods

REL 535: Graduate Seminar: Comparative Christianities

REL 635: Advanced Graduate Seminar in Comparative Christianities

GESM 120: Celtic Myth and Legend

History 102g: Medieval Civilization

History 305/SWMS 307: Women and Religion in the Pre-modern West

History 308: Britain and Ireland to 1200 C.E.

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History 309/499: Britain and Ireland 1200-1500 C.E.

History 406/Religion 499: Saints in Historical Theory and Practice

History 406: Body, Sex, and Love in Medieval Europe

History 499/ARLT 100: History of Christian Vision

History 505: Graduate Seminar in Early Medieval History

History 506: Graduate Seminar (Image & Text in Medieval European History)

History 605: Graduate Seminar (Medieval Christianity in Social Context)

History 605: Graduate Seminar (Women and Gender in Medieval Europe)

History 608: History of Religions in the Pre-Modern World*

MDA 599: Technologies and Arts of Invisibility

SWMS 215g: Gender Conflict in Cultural Contexts

SWMS 311: Gender Studies and the Community: Internship

Graduate Fields taught: History of Christianity; Religion in Pre-modern Europe;

Church in Social Context; Women/Gender in Medieval Europe; Pre-modern

Ireland; Early Medieval Britain; Early Medieval Europe; Late Antique

Christianity

Graduate committees: (* indicates chair)

April Makgoeng, Ph.D., Religion, University of Southern California

Sarah Yeomans, Ph.D., Art History, University of Southern California

John Fanestil, Ph.D., History, University of Southern California (2017)

Rebecca Cerling, Ph.D., History, University of Southern California* (2014)

Ericka Swensson, Ph.D., History, University of Southern California* (2013)

Ruth Robbins, Ph.D., History, University of Southern California* (2011)

Andrew Fogleman, Ph.D., History, University of Southern California* (2011)

Dina Boero, Ph.D., Classics, University of Southern California (2015)

Kate Heckman, Ph.D., Art History, University of Southern California (2009)

Candace Weddle, Ph.D., Art History, University of Southern California (2010)

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Catherine Feeley, Ph.D., Classics, University of Southern California (2006)

(external)

Siobhan McElduff, Ph.D., Classics, University of Southern California (2004)

(external)

June Mecham, Ph.D, History, University of Kansas (2003)*

Stacy Kerr, M.A., History, University of Southern California (2002)*

Marie Kelleher, Ph.D., History, University of Kansas (2001)

Jennifer Palmgren, Ph.D., English, University of Kansas (1999) (external)

Sharon Sullivan, Ph.D., Theatre, University of Kansas (1999) (external)

Amy Fowler, Ph.D., History of Art, University of Kansas (1999) (external)

Jack Alex Burden, M.A., History, University of Kansas (1998)*

Robert Eickwort, M.A., History, University of Kansas (1998)*

Karen Brichoux, M.A., History, University of Kansas (1996)*

Peter Miller, M.A., History, University of Kansas (1996)

Healy, Ph.D., English, University of Kansas (1997) (external)

Sherry Valentine, Ph.D., French, University of Kansas (1996) (external)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

External:

American Council of Learned Societies, Review Committee, Burckhardt

Fellowships (2015-18)

Medieval Academy of America:

Digital Initiatives Advisory Board (2011-2017)

Director, DIAB (2015-2017)

Co-Creator, Medieval Digital Resources (2016)

Chair, Electronic Publications Committee (2010-13)

Electronic Technology Committee (2008-2011)

Program Committee (2014 annual meeting; 1996 annual meeting)

H-medieval, Editorial Board (2014-16)

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Material Religions, Editorial Board (2008-)

History Compass, Editorial Board for Britain and Ireland, (2006-)

Feminae (Medieval Feminist Index), Advisory Board, (2003-)

The Medieval Review (TMR), Editorial Board (2012-2014)

Journal of Women’s History, Board of Associate Editors (1998-2005).

Monastic Matrix (http://monasticmatrix.org)

Editorial Board (2003-)

Director (2001-12)

Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, 2012-

Program Committee (2012-15).

Society for Medieval Feminist Studies

Board of Advisors (2001-2004, elected).

Committee on Electronic Publications (2004-2005).

American Historical Society, Baxter Book Prize Committee (2005-2007).

American Conference on Irish Studies, Executive Board, Celtic Studies

Representative (1999-2001, elected)

Donnelly Prize Committee, American Conference on Irish Studies (1998-99)

Chair (2000- 2001)

Consultant, Gerry Higgins Chair in Irish Studies, Melbourne University, 2013

Reader/referee for Speculum, Signs, American Historical Review, Journal of

Women’s History, Éire- Ireland, Heroic Age, Modern Philology, Material

Religions, Palgrave-Macmillan, Routledge Press, Princeton University Press,

Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Press,

Cornell University Press, Irish-American Cultural Institute et al.

Tenure/promotion reviewer for American Academy in Berlin, UC Santa Barbara,

Yale University, University of Vienna, the Ohio State University, Tufts

University, Arizona State University, University of Delaware, Bowdoin

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College, University of Hawaii, University of Utah, Florida International

University, Adlephi University, et al.

USC University service:

Senior Fellow, USC Society of Fellows postdoctoral scholars – Mentor:

Jessica Wright (2016-18)

Mostafa Hussein (2017-19)

Kathryn Dickason (2018-20)

NTT Promotion Panel (2014-15)

Fulbright Review Panel (2014, 2016)

Casden Institute Advisory Board (2014-)

Selection Panel, Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholars in the Humanities (2013-14)

University Committee on Academic Review (2007-2010)

Multifaith Council (2006-2007)

University Committee on Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure (2002-2006)

Provost’s Task Force on Graduate Diversity (2005-2006)

Women and Leadership Task Force (2004-2005)

University Committee on Information Services (2004-2005)

Provost’s Task Force on Strategic Plan (2003-2004)

Joint Provost and Faculty Senate Task Force on Gender Equity (2002-2003)

125th Anniversary Committee, ISD (2004)

USC Dornsife College service:

Digital Humanities Council (2017-18)

Panelist, Dornsife Admissions (April, 2018)

Presidents’ Scholarships, interviewer (2018).

Dean’s Special Liaison to Jewish Studies (2014-16).

Director, Interdisciplinary Research Group, Center for Religion and Civic Culture

(2010-2016)

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Director, Working Group on Im/Material Religions, CRCC (2013-2015)

Director, Working Group on Material and Visual Religions, CRCC (2011-13)

Director, IRG-CRCC Seminar on Haunted Religions (2012-13)

Director, CRCC Visualizing Religion Faculty Research Seminar (2007-2008)

Director, Research Cluster on Vision and Prophecy, CRCC (2005-2007)

Director, Seminar on Religion and Culture, CRCC (2004-2005)

Social Sciences Panel, Tenure and Promotion (2011-12)

Search Committee, Casden Chair in Jews in American Life (2008-09)

Chair, Steering Committee, Center for Feminist Research (2008-09)

Organizer, Lunch through the Lens of Gender, panel series (2008-10)

Organizer, annual Women in Higher Education luncheon (2007-10)

Interim Director, Center for Feminist Research (2007-10)

Math and Sciences Panel, Promotion and Tenure (2006-2007)

College Website Committee (2002)

Steering Committee, Center for Feminist Research (2002-2004)

Zumberge Fellowship reviewer (2004-2005)

Departmental service:

Religion Department

Chair (2017-19)

Tenure/Promotion Committee:

Duncan Williams (chair, 2018-19)

Cavan Concannon (chair, 2017-18)

David Albertson (chair, 2014-15)

Megan Reid (chair, 2010/ 14)

Lori Meeks (chair, 2009-10)

Roberto Lint Sagarena (2008-09)

Review Committee: Jessica Marglin (2017)

Webmaster (2014-2015)

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Judaic Studies Committee, (chair, 2013-2015)

Search Committee, Christianities in the Global South (chair, 2017-18)

Search Committee, Early Modern Jews/Jewish Life (chair, 2013-14)

Search Committee, Early Christianity (2013-14)

Search Committee, Casden Chair in Jews/American Life (2009-10)

Graduate Curriculum Committee (2006-2010)

History Department

Search Committee, Modern European (2016-17)

Director of Graduate Studies (2012-2015)

Graduate Committee (2011-2015, 2016-17)

Faculty mentor:

Richard Antaramian (2014); Ramzi Rouighi (2011)

Undergraduate Committee (2007-2010)

Appointments Committee (2006-2007)

Graduate Board (2005-2007)

Library and Technology Committee (2001-2005; 2009)

Search Committee, position in Roman history (2004-2005)

Search Committee, position in Early Modern European history (2002-2003)

Departmental webmaster (2001-2002)

Gender Studies Program:

Director (2007-2010)

Curriculum Committee (2006-2007)

Advisory Board (2002-2010)

Outreach:

Los Angeles Opera – Continuing Education, lecturer (2017: “Nabucco” 2015:

“Norma” 2016: “Otello”.)

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“Christianizing the Roman Empire,” on Patrick Wyman, Tides of History, Wondery

(Nov 2017) https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/

Zócalo Town Square/Getty Museum: “How Do We Depict Religious Experiences?”

(Sept 2016) http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/event/how-do-we-depict-

religious-experiences/

Interviewed on “The Miracle Hunter”, Radio Maria, March 2015.

Interviewed by KLIF/WBAP radio (Dallas-Fort Worth), “Halloween,” Oct 2013.

Interviewed for “Taboo,” National Geographic, 2012.

Interviewed by History Channel for “The Real Halloween,” 2009.

Los Angeles Public Library ALOUD Science series, “Seeing the Divine,” with

Michael Arbib and Margaret Wertheim (2008)

Liaison/Consultant, Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women (2007)

Interviewed by Cloverland Production for DVD edition of “The Robe” (2008)

Interviewed by LA Times, La Opinion, Fox News, Univision re: Our Lady of the

Rock (2007, 2014)

Interviewed by Fox Report on ordination of Catholic women (Oct 2006)

Interviewed by Nicholas Wade, NYT, for article on genetics and Irish history (Nov

2005)

Interviewed by National Geographic for online article on film, “National Treasure”

(2005)

Guest lecturer, USC Catholic Center: “St. Brigit of Ireland” (2004).

Advisory team, “Old Irish” (3-part television series funded by RTE and

PBS/WNET), Café Productions Ltd. (2000).

Consultant, St. Columba Center for 21st Century Spirituality, St. James Episcopal

Church, Wichita (2000).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association, American Academy of Religion, Medieval

Academy of America (elected Fellow), Medieval Academy of Ireland, Royal

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Society of the Antiquaries of Ireland, Celtic Studies Association of North

America, International Center for Medieval Art, American Catholic

Historical Society, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Hagiography

Society, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies UCLA (Associate,

elected), Berkshire Conference of Women Historians