Профессор латинского языка и романских языков, лектор по средневековому христианству Гарвардского университета.

Обучалась в Университет Мэриленд (бакалавриат) и в Boston College (магистратура и докторантура).

Преподает в Гарвардском университете с 1986 г.

Занимается изучением христианских источников на латинском языке и их роли в развитии средневековой культуры.

Книги

Hildegard of Bingen’s Gospel Homilies: Speaking New Mysteries, Medieval Women and Texts 12, Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.
Hildegard of Bingen. Expositiones evangeliorum, in Hildegardis Bingensis, Opera minora. Coedited with Carolyn Muessig. Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis 226. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007, pp. 135-333.
Cistercians, Heresy and Crusade (1145-1229): Preaching in the Lord’s Vineyard. Woodbridge,UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2001.
The Sermon. Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, fasc. 81-83. General editor and author of “The Twelfth-Century Monastic Sermon,” pp. 271-323, Introduction, 143-174, and Conclusion 963-983. Turnhout: Brepols, 2000.
Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity. Co-edited with Pamela J. Walker. University of California Press, 1998.
Medieval Sermons and Society: Cloister, City, University. Co-edited with Jacqueline Hamesse, Debra Stoudt, and Anne Thayer. F.I.D.E.M., Textes et études du Moyen Age, 9. Louvain-la-Neuve, 1998.
Models of Holiness in Medieval Sermons. Proceedings of the International Symposium (Kalamazoo, 4-7 May 1995), ed., B.M. Kienzle, Edith Dolnikowski, Rosemary Drage Hale, Darleen Pryds, Anne Thayer. Textes et études du Moyen Age, 5. Louvain-la-Neuve: F.I.D.E.M., 1996.
Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons for the Summer Season: Liturgical Sermons from Rogationtide and Pentecost, CF 53, translation, introduction, notes, and indexes. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1991.
De Ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages, with Thomas L. Amos and Eugene A. Green. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1989.

Статьи и главы в книгах

“Religious poverty and the search for perfection,” in The Cambridge History of Christianity: Christianity in Western Europe c. 1000-c.1500, ed. Miri Rubin and Walter Simons, Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. 39-53.
“Preaching the Cross: From Liturgy to Crusade Propaganda,” Medieval Sermon Studies 23, 2009: 11-32.
“Performing the Gospel Stories: Hildegard of Bingen’s Dramatic Exegesis in the Expositiones euangeliorum,” Chapter 5 in Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts, ed. Elina Gertsman. Ashgate, 2008, pp. 121-140.
“Les sources bénédictines et les écrits de Hildegarde de Bingen,” Actes du Colloque Mémoire du Catharisme, “Écrire l’histoire d’une hérésie”, Mazamet (Tarn - France), 2008, pp. 26-47.
“The Clash Between Catholics and Cathars over Veneration of the Cross,” in: Iconoclasm and Iconoclash. Struggle for Religious Identity, ed. W. v. Asselt/P. v. Geest/D. Mueller/Th.Salemink (Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, vol. 14). Leiden/Boston, 2007, pp. 263- 279.
“The Bestiary of Heretics: Imaging Medieval Christian Heresy with Insects and Animals,” in A Communion of Subjects, edited by Paul Waldau and Kimberley Patton, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, pp. 103-16.
“Sermons and Preaching,” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2006, pp. 736-40.
“Hildegard of Bingen,” Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2006, pp. 364-68.
“Bernard of Clairvaux,” with James Calder Walton, Encyclopedia of the Crusades (3 vols.) ed. Alan V. Murray. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California, 2006. Vol. I, pp. 162-64.
“The Cistercians and the Crusades,” with James Calder Walton, Encyclopedia of the Crusades. Vol. I, pp. 257-62.
“Constructing Heaven in Hildegard of Bingen’s Expositiones evangeliorum,” in Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages, ed. Ad Putter and C. A. Muessig, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture (London, New York: Routledge Press, 2006), pp. 34-43.
“Historical and Contemporary Reponses to Battering,” Co-authored with Nancy Nienhuis, Journal of Religion and Abuse 7.1 (2005): 81-98.
“La représentation de l’hérétique par l’imagerie animale,” in Les cathares devant l'histoire. Mélanges offerts à Jean Duvernoy, ed. Anne Brenon and Christine Dieulafait. Castelnaud La Chapelle, L’Hydre éditions, 2005, pp. 181-95.
“Cathars,” (2,200 words) in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, ed. Dinah Shelton. 3 vols. Detroit, Mich: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
“Hildegard of Bingen’s Exegesis of Luke,” in Early Christian Voices in Texts, Traditions, and Symbols. Essays in Honor of François Bovon, ed. David H. Warren, Ann Graham Brock, David W. Pao, Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2003, pp. 227-38.
“Medieval Sermons and Their Performance: Theory and Record,” in Preacher, Sermon and Audience in the Middle Ages, ed. C. A. Muessig, E. J. Brill, 2002, 89-124.
“Penitents and Preachers: The Figure of Saint Peter and His Relationship to Saint Mary Magdalene,” in La figura di san Pietro nelle fonti del medioevo. Atti del convegno tenutosi in occasione dello Studiorum universitatum docentium congressus (Viterbo e Roma 5-8 settembre 2000), ed. Loredana Lazzari and Anna Maria Valente Bacci. Textes et études du moyen âge, 17. Louvain-la-Neuve: F.I.D.E.M., 2001, pp. 248-72.
"Inimici crucis : la théologie de la croix et la persécution du catharisme", in Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (ed.) Autour de Montaillou, un village occitan - Histoire et religiosité d'une communaute villageoise au Moyen Age, Actes du colloque de Montaillou, 25-27 aout 2000,
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle: L'Hydre, 2001, p. 283-299.
“Hildegard of Bingen’s Expositiones evangeliorum and Her Exegesis of the Parable of the Prodigal Son,” in “Im Angesicht Gottes suche der Mensch sich selbst”. Hildegard von Bingen 1098-1998. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2001, pp. 299-324.
“Hildegard of Bingen’s Teaching in her Expositiones evangeliorum and Ordo Virtutum,” in Medieval Monastic Education, ed. George P. Ferzoco and Carolyn A. Muessig, University of Leicester Press, 2001, pp. 72-86.
“Battered Women and the Construction of Sanctity,” with Nancy Nienhuis. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 17.1 (Spring 2001): 33-61.
“Pons of Léras,” Introduction and translation for Medieval Hagiography edited by Thomas Head, New York: Garland Press, 2000, pp. 495-513.
“La prédication: pierre de touche de la dissidence et de l’orthodoxie,” in Heresis 30 (1999), 11-51.
“Preaching as Touchstone of Orthodoxy and Dissidence in the Middle Ages,” in Medieval Sermon Studies 43 (1999), 18-53.
“Innocent III’s Papacy and the Crusade Years, 1198-1229: Arnaud Amaury, Gui of Vaux-de-Cernay, Foulque of Toulouse,” in Heresis 29 (1998), 48-81.
“Cistercian Views of the City in the Sermons of Hélinand of Froidmont,” in Medieval Sermons and Society, 165-182.
“New Introduction” for re-edition of The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, trans. Bruno Scott James (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1998), pp. viii-xviii.
“Defending the Lord’s Vineyard: Hildegard of Bingen’s Preaching against the Cathars,” in Medieval Monastic Preaching, ed. Carolyn A. Muessig (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), 163-191.
“Holiness and Obedience: Denouncement of Twelfth-Century Waldensian Lay Preaching,” in The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft. Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell, ed. Alberto Ferreiro (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1998), 259-278.
“The Prostitute-Preacher: Patterns of Polemic against Medieval Waldensian Women Preachers,” in Women Preachers and Prophets, 99-113.
“Henry of Clairvaux and the 1178 and 1181 Preaching Missions,” in Heresis 28 (1997), 63-87.
“Hélinand de Froidmont et la prédication cistercienne dans le Midi, 1145-1229,” In La prédication en pays d’oc (Xlle-début XVe siècle), Cahiers de Fanjeaux 32 (Toulouse: Privat, 1997), 37-67.
“Exegesis on Luke 10:38 at the Turn of the Twelfth Century: Worcester MS F94, fols. 1r-2r, A Tribute to James E. Cross,” in Medieval Sermon Studies 40 (Fall 1997) 22-28.
“Operatrix in vinea Domini: Hildegard of Bingen’s Preaching and Polemics against the Cathars,” in Heresis 26/27 (1996), 43-56.
“Sermons,” with David L. D’Avray, in Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Biographical Guide, ed. F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg (Catholic University of America Press, 1996), 659-669.
“Tending the Lord’s Vineyard: Cistercians, Rhetoric and Heresy, 1143-1229, Part I: Bernard of Clairvaux, the 1143 Sermons and the 1145 Preaching Mission,” in Heresis 25 (1996), 29-61.
Pons of Léras and the Founding of Sylvanès, translation and English edition of Hugh of Sylvanès’ Tractatus de conversione Pontii de Larazio, et exordii Salvaniensis monasterii vera narratio (Cistercian Studies Quarterly 30:3) (1995), 219-43.
“The Works of Hugo Francigena: Tractatus de Conversione Pontii de Laracio et exordii Salvaniensis Monasterii Vera Narratio; epistolae (Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale MS.611), Sacris erudiri 34 (1994), 287-317.
“A Typology of the Medieval Sermon and its Development in the Middles Ages: Report on Work in Progress,” in De l’homélie au sermon, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse (Louvain-la-Neuve: Publications de l’Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, 1993), 83-101.
“Verbum Dei et Verba Bernardi: The Function of Language in Bernard’s Second Sermon for Peter and Paul,” in Bernardus Magister: Papers Celebrating the Nonacentenary of the Birth of Bernard of Clairvaux, ed. John R. Sommerfeldt (Cistercian Publications, 1992), 149-59.
“Mary Speaks Against Heresy: An Unedited Sermon of Hélinand of Froidmont for the Purification,” Paris, B.N. MS. Lat. 14591, Sacris Erudiri, 32:2 (1991), 291-308.
“Education in the Late Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries: The Witness of Hélinand of Froidmont,” in Faith Seeking Understanding: Learning and the Catholic Tradition (Manchester, N.H.: Saint Anselm College Press, 1991), 77-88.
“Cistercians and Heresy: Doctrinal Consultation in Some Twelfth-Century Correspondence from Southern France, with Susan Shroff, Cîteaux: commentarii cistercienses, 41 (1990), 159-66.
“Maternal Imagery in the Sermons of Hélinand of Froidmont,” in De Ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages, ed. Thomas L. Amos, Eugene A. Green, Beverly M. Kienzle (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1989), 93-103.
“Pons of Leras: A Twelfth-Century Cistercian,” Cîteaux: commentarii cistercienses, 40 (1989), 215-26.
“Cistercian Preaching Against the Cathars: Hélinand’s Unedited Sermon for Rogation, B.N. MS. Lat. 14591,” Cîteaux: commentarii cistercienses, 39 (1988), 297-314.
“Deed and Word: Hélinand’s Toulouse Sermons I,” in John Sommerfeldt, ed., Erudition at God’s Service, Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, 11, CS 98 (Kalamazoo, 1987), 267-76.
“Erudition at God’s Service: Hélinand’s Toulouse Sermons II,” in John Sommerfeldt, ed., Erudition at God’s Service, Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, 11, CS 98 (Kalamazoo, 1987), 277-90.
“The House of the Lord: Hélinand on Superfluous Monastic Construction,” in Proceedings of the PMR Conference, 11 (Augustinian Historical Institute, Villanova University, 1986), 135-41.
“The Sermon as Goad and Nail: Preaching in Hélinand of Froidmont,” in E. Rozanne Elder, ed. Goad and Nail: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, 9, CS 84 (Kalamazoo, 1985), 228-40.