E. Ann Matter

E. Ann Matter

E. Ann Matter, Ph.D (born 1947) is Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in Medieval Christianity, including mysticism, women and religion, sexuality and religion, manuscript and textual studies and sacred music. She has written extensively on the life and work of seventeenth century Italian Catholic nun and mystic, Sister Maria Domitilla Galluzzi.

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