NANCY BRADLEY WARREN, Professor, BA (English and French) summa cum laude, Vanderbilt University (1991); Ph.D., Indiana University (1997). Areas of specialization include medieval literature and culture with emphases on women and religion; intersections of gender, religion, and nationality; and the ongoing importance of medieval religion in the early modern period. She has published a book on female spirituality and political conflict and a book on female monasticism in later medieval England as well as numerous articles on medieval female spirituality; she has also co-edited a collection of essays on religion and the vernacular in the Middle Ages. Her current book project, entitled The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures 1350-1700 is under advance contract with the Trans-Reformation Studies series at University of Notre Dame Press. This book is a comparative study of medieval and early modern women's ways of writing about God and religious experience. It undertakes an exploration of the ways in which textual and historical relations among gendered individuals, human others, and God are negotiated. At this books heart is a call to reconsider the binaries of medieval and early modern, Catholic and Protestant, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, that have obscured important aspects of English religious cultures.

Professor Warren was awarded a year long fellowship for 2007- 2008 at the National Humanities Center in the North Carolina Research Triangle to complete the manuscript of The Embodied Word. The National Humanities Center is the only major independent American institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities, and it provides a national focus for the best work in the liberal arts. Since the Centers founding in 1978, outstanding scholars from across the United States and more than thirty other nations have been awarded fellowships for advanced study at the NHC. Professor Warren was one of 35 fellows selected from over 430 applicants in the 2007-2008 fellowship competition.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Women of God and Arms: Female Spirituality and Political Conflict, 1380-1600 (University of Pennsylvania Press, August 2005).
• Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Warren, co-editors, The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religion, New York: Palgrave/St Martin's, 2002.
• Spiritual Economies: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Winner of the 2004 Gustave O. Arlt Award from the Council of Graduate Schools.

Selected Articles

• "The Paradoxical Popularity of Christine de Pizan: Gender, Nationality, and Anglo-French Politics," Exemplaria 16.2 (2004): 405-36.
• "Monastic Politics: St. Colette of Corbie, the Franciscan Order, and the House of Burgundy," New Medieval Literatures 5 (2002): 203-28.
• "Kings, Saints, and Nuns: Gender, Religion, and Authority in the Reign of Henry V," Viator 30 (1999): 307-22.
• "Pregnancy and Productivity: The Imagery of Female Monasticism within and beyond the Cloister Walls," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28 (1998): 531-52.