Ann Astell
Professor, Department of Theology
Degrees
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; M.A., Marquette University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Profile
Astell is the recipient of an N.E.H. Fellowship and of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. She is the author of six books: The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages (1990), Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth (1994), Chaucer and the Universe of Learning (1996), Political Allegory in Late Medieval England (1999), Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship (2003), and Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages (2006). Astell is the editor of three essay collections: Divine Representations: Postmodernism and Spirituality (1994), Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models (2000), and (with Bonnie Wheeler) Joan of Arc and Spirituality. A Board member for the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, she also serves as executive secretary of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.Contact Information
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Malloy Hall
631-7811
Ann.W.Astell.1@nd.edu
