Professor
Barbara Jane Newman
Northwestern University
Religion and literary scholar; Historian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Religious Studies
Elected
2005
Has written on gender, literature, and religion in the Middle Ages. Work has two primary emphases: the accomplishments of historical women as writers, patrons, and spiritual leaders; and the functions and meanings of symbolic constructions of the feminine in devotional and imaginative texts.
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