Ulrika Wiethaus Professor of Religion and Director of Religion and Public Engagement MA, PhD Temple University Religious and Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies; Gender, Power, and Justice; and German Mystical Traditions. 203a Wingate Hall Telephone: (336) 758-7169 FAX: (336) 758-4462 Email

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine: Life and Revelations. Translated from the Latin with
       introduction, notes, and interpretive essay. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2002.

Ecstatic Transformations. Ecstasies and Visions in the Work of Mechthild of Magdeburg and

Transpersonal Psychology.Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
and Cherewatuk,Karen, eds. Dear Sister.

The Correspondence of Medieval Women.
       Introduction and previously unpublished essay. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania   Press, 1993.

Maps of Flesh and Light. The Religious Experience of Medieval Women. Edited with
       introduction and previously unpublished essay. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993.

Foundations of First Peoples' Sovereignty: History, Culture and Education. Edited,
        with introductory essay. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Spring 2008.

BOOKS IN PROGRESS

The Wisdom Keepers’ Council: Lakota Views on Christianity and Traditional Lifeways

Trace of the Other: Interpretations of Alterity in Medieval Christian Mysticism

ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS

“Spatial Metaphors, Textual Production, and Spirituality in the Works of Gertrud of Helfta”, in A Place to Believe In. Locating Medieval Landscapes. Edited by  Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing, 132-50. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2006. 

“Christian Spirituality in the Medieval West (600-1450)”, in The Blackwell Companion to Christian Spirituality. Edited by Arthur Holder, 106-22. Malden/Oxford/Victoria: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

“Dionysius of Ryckel: Masculinity and Historical Memory” in Anchorites, Wombs and
Tombs. Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages. Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Edwards, 116-31.Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005.

“The German Historian Elisabeth Busse-Wilson (1890-1974): Academic Feminism and Medieval Hagiography, 1914-1931.” In Women Medievalists and the Academy. Edited by 
Jane Chance, 353-67. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005
.
“Christian Spirituality in the Medieval West (600-1450 CE).” In The Blackwell Companion to
Christian Spirituality. Edited by Arthur Holder, 106-122.Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd., 2005.

Syllabus of FYS: Film and Middle Ages. In Film & History: An Interdisciplinary
Journal (http://H-Net.MSU.EDU/~FILMHIS). Edited by Peter C. Collins, 2002.

“Body and Empire in the Works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34:1 (2004):41-65.

“Music and Liminality: The Death Song of Marie d’Oignies (1177-1213) in Context.” In The
Texture of Society: Medieval Women in Flanders. Edited by Ellen Kittell and Mary Suydam, 53-81. New York: St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave Press, 2004.

“Pulchrum Signum? Sexuality and the Politics of Religion in the Works of Hrotsvit of
Gandersheim (d. 1001).” In New Approaches to Hrotsvit Studies. Edited by Phyllis Brown and Katharina Wilson, 125-47. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

“Female Homoerotic Discourse and Religion in Medieval German Culture.” In Difference and
Genders in the Middle Ages. Edited by Sharon Farmer and Carol Pasternack, 288-321. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

“Thieves and Carnivals: Gender in German Dominican Literature of the Fourteenth Century.” In
The Vernacular Spirit. Essays on Medieval Religious Literature. Edited by Renate Blumenthal-Kosinski, 209-39. Vol. 4 of The New Middle Ages. New York: St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave Press, 2002.

“Street Mysticism: An Introduction to The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin.” In
Women Writing in Latin. Vol. 2. Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis Brown, and Katharina Wilson, 281-309. New York: Routledge, 2002.

“Medieval Women Mystics: A Few Courtly Feasts and Many Bag Lunches.” In Women Mystics
Speak to Our Times. Edited by David B. Perrin, 3-17. Franklin, WI: Sheed and Ward, 2001
.
“Frauen, Spiritualität, und das Europäische Mittelalter: Made in the USA.” In Zwischenräume.
Deutsche feministische Theologinnen im Ausland. Theologische Frauenforschung in Europa.Vol. 1. Edited by Katharina von Kellenbach and Susanne Scholz, 123-39. Münster-Hamburg-London: LIT Verlag, 2000.

“Female Spirituality, Medieval Women, and Commercialism in the United States.” In New
Trends in Feminine Spirituality. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts. Edited by Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne under the auspices of the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Hull, 297-315. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1999.
with Jane E. Jeffrey. “Cinematic Representations of Medieval Women and their Legacy: Using
Film, Text, and Theory to Teach Medieval Women’s Culture.” Medieval Feminist Newsletter 25 (Spring 1998):40-46.
“Feminist Historiography as Pornography: St. Elisabeth of Thuringia in Nazi Germany.”
Medieval Feminist Newsletter 24 (Fall 1997):46-55.

 “Mechthild von Magdeburg’s Mystical-Poetic Language: An Inspiration for Women’s
Spirituality Today?” In Re-Visioning Our Sources. Women’s Spirituality in European Contexts. Edited by Annette Esser, Anne Hunt Overzee, Susan Roll, 106-13. New York: KOK Pharos, 1997.

“Naming and Un-naming Violence Against Women: German Historiography and the Cult of St.
Elisabeth of Thuringia (1207-1231).” In Studies in Medievalism IX. Medievalism and the Academy. Vol. 1. Edited by Leslie Workman, Kathleen Verduin, and David D. Metzger, 187-209. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1997.

“‘Cherchez la femme’: Religion and Gender in Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous
Illness.” Psychohistory Review, 24:2 (1996):137-55.

“Christian Piety and the Legacy of Medieval Masculinity.” In Redeeming Men: Essays onMen,
Masculinities, and Religion. Edited byStephen B. Boyd, W. Merle Longwood, Mark W. Muesse, 48-62. Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.

“‘Auf einem Bett aus Elfenbein’: Sexualität und Spiritualität.” In Göttinnen und Priesterinnen.
Facetten feministischer Spiritualität. Edited by Donate Pahnke, 161-75.Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1995.

“‘For This I Ask You, Punish Me.’ Norms of Spiritual Orthopraxis in the Work of Maria van
Hout [d.1547].” Ons Geestelijk Erf68, 3 (Fall 1994):253-70.

“Female Authority and Religiosity in Epistolary Works of Katharina Zell and Caritas
Pirckheimer.” Mystics Quarterly19,3 (1993):123-36.

“On Violations and Fragmentations: Feminist Scholarship and Late Medieval Women’s Ecstatic
Spirituality.” Women & Language 16, 1 (Spring 1993):7-14.

“Wider den unberührbaren Gott.” In Streitfall Feministische Theologie. Edited by Hartmut Meesmann and Britta Hübener, 305-15. Düsseldorf: Patmos Verlag, 1993.

“Feministische Spirituälitat in den USA.”Dialog der Religionen2, 2 (1992):185-95.
“Learning as Experiencing: Hadewijch as Spiritual Pedagogue.” In Faith Seeking Understanding: Learning and the Catholic Tradition. Edited byGeorge C. Berthold, 89-107. Manchester, NH: St. Anselm’s Press, 1991.

 “Sexuality, Gender, and the Body in Late Medieval Women's Spirituality.”Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion7, 1 (Spring 1991):35-52.

 “‘Wenn ich einen Körper aus Eisen hätte’: Weiblichkeit und Religion in den Briefen der Maria van Hout.” Frühneuzeit Info2, 2 (1991):41-51.

“A Critical Discussion of Caroline Walker Bynum’s Jesus as Mother.” In Der Gott der Männer und die Frauen. Edited byMarie Therese Wacker, 93-101. Düsseldorf: Patmos Verlag, 1987.

“Suffering and Healing in the Work of Mechthild of Magdeburg.” Listening22, 2 (Spring 1987): 139-51.

“Hildegard of Bingen’s Play Ordo Virtutum - A Weapon against the Cathars?” American Benedictine Review38, 2 (June 1987):192-203.

BOOK REVIEWS (over 25)

Critical Review of Books
Dialog der Religionen
Germanic Studies
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Journal of Men’s Studies
Journal of Medieval Studies
Mediaevistik
Medieval Feminist Newsletter
Mystics Quarterly
Perspectives in Religious Studies
Psychohistory Review
Speculum
Sixteenth Century Journal
Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research

FILMOGRAPHY
Co-Producer and Director (with Jack Lucido and Harry Charger), Lakota Spirit (2007-2008).
Producer and Director. Lakota Wo’okiye. Lakota Language and Culture Preservation
and  Revitalization: Presentations by Elders on the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota (2006).

SELECT EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

Editorial Board, 1999 to 2004, Medieval Feminist Forum

Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Feminist Studies
in Religion, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Magistra, Speculum
Reviewer for American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism Series (2000), Beacon Press
1989), Columbia University Press (2001), Cornell University Press (1994, 2004), National Endowment for the Humanities, Translations Program (1993), Syracuse University Press (1994), University of Pennsylvania Press (1995)
NEH Proposals Evaluator: Summer Seminars and Institutes 2008 (2007)