Assistant Professor Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Interest: History of Christianity Email: gregoryra@missouri.edu
My current research focuses on medieval women's religious literature from Germany and the Low Countries, particularly prescriptive literature for women's religious communities and female-authored or co-authored devotional and mystical texts. I am currently examining how depictions of marriage to Jesus were used to both prescribe and subvert models of the ideal Christian woman during the 12th-15th centuries. Though I specialize in the medieval period, my interests range as early as Tertullian and as late as the Reformation. I am also collaborating on a new project that explores manifestations of religion in virtual worlds.
Teaching
2600 Early Christianity
2610 Medieval Christianity
2620 History of Christianity 1500-present
3750 Women and Religions
4410 Major Religious Thinkers
3600 Spirituality
Rabia Gregory