Austin Powell

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Position Title
Lecturer in Classics
Postdoctoral Researcher in Classics

he/him/his
716 Sproul
Education and Degree(s)
  • PhD, History, The Catholic University of America, 2020
Courses
  • CLA 004 (Late Antiquity)
  • LAT 125 (Medieval Latin)
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Late Medieval Italy
  • Women and Gender
  • Mysticism, Preaching, and the Cult of the Saints
  • Manuscript Studies
  • Urban Religious Cultures
Publications
  • "Manuscript Miscellanies, Jerome's Letters to Women, and the Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Italy," Renaissance Quarterly 74.3 (2021)
  • "Writing Polemic as History: The Apocalyptic Implications of Elias of Cortona, Hugh of Digne, and Gerardo Segarelli in Salimbene's Cronica," Franciscan Studies 75 (2017)