Barbara Newman

Professor of English and Religion
Office hours: by appointment
Phone: (847)491-5679
E-Mail: bjnewman@northwestern.edu

BARBARA NEWMAN (Ph.D. Yale) is known for her work on medieval religious culture and women's spirituality. Her most recent book, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press), was published in 2002. She is also the author of From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (1995) and three works on Hildegard of Bingen: an edited volume, Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World (1998); an edition and translation of Hildegard's collected songs, Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (1988, rev. 1998); and Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (1987). Professor Newman has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern. Her courses in 2001-02 will be "The Bible as Literature," "Theory and Practice of Love in the Twelfth Century," "The Canterbury Tales," and "History of Literary Criticism: Plato to the Renaissance." Professor Newman is serving as Chair of the Religion Department. in 2003-04.

Professor Barbara Newman holds a joint appointment in the Religion and English Departments.