Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, August 2004.
World Area Of Focus:
• Western Europe/European Union (EU) 50%-74%
Languages:
• Spanish (professional proficiency)
Relevant Experience:
Professor, immersion course in Castile and Andalucia, Perkins School of Theology, Janterm 2009, 2011.
Distinctions:
2008 Charles Julian Bishko Memorial Prize, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, best article in medieval Iberian history by a North American scholar (“The gony of the Virgin: The Swoons and Crucifixion of Mary in Sixteenth Century Castilian Passion Treatises,” Sixteenth Century Journal).
Relevant Courses Taught:
RELI 161: Introduction to the History of Christian Traditions; RELI 165: Mysticism (introductory course, west and east); RELI 362: Mary in the Christian Tradition; RELI 665: Body and Suffering in Christian Mysticism; RELI 668 Spanish Religions: Medieval Convivencia and Colonial Encounter
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Journal Forum: “Transactional Economy in Spanish Mysticism,” in the forum “In Conversation: The Materiality of Sacred Economies,” ed. David Morgan, Material Religion 11.3 (2015): 395-7.
• 2016 [co-edited book] Mother Juana de la Cruz, 1481–1534: Visionary Sermons. Ed. Jessica A. Boon and Ronald E. Surtz. Introductory material and notes by Jessica A. Boon. Trans. Ronald E. Surtz and Nora Weinerth. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series. Toronto: Iter Academic Press; Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016.
• 2016 Book review: The Fabric of Marian Devotion in Isabel de Villena’s Vita Christi by Lesley K. Twomey. La Córonica 43.2 (2015): 172-6.
• 2016 “Violence and the ‘Virtual Jew’ in Castilian Passion Narratives, 1490s-1510s.” Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 8.1 (2016): 1-20; published online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2015.1077987.
• 2013 “Wounded by Love: The Agony of God’s Touch in Hadewijch and Ruusbroec.” Invited chapter for Companion to Hadewijch, Brill Press, submitted Feb 2013, 23 pp.
• 2012 The Mystical Science of the Soul: Medieval Cognition in Bernardino de Laredo’s Recollection Method University of Toronto Press, 2012.
• 2012 “The Glory of the Virgin: The Mariology of the Incarnation in Early Modern Castilian Mystical Sermons.” La Corónica 41.1 (2012): 35-60.
• 2011 “A Full-Figured Paradox: Mary Magdalene as Prostitute, Apostle, Virgin, Ascetic, and Contemplative,” in Jusepe de Ribera’s Mary Magdalene in a New Context, The Prado at the Meadows, 2, Dallas, TX, and Madrid, 2011, pp. 91–101 (English), 122–125 (Spanish translation).
• 2011 “Christ at Heavenly Play: Christology Through Mary’s Eyes in the Sermons of Juana de la Cruz (1481-1534).” Archiv für Reformationgeschichte (Archive of Reformation History) 102 (2011): 243-66.
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