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Mary Suydam
Mary A. Suydam
(B.A., Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) has taught religion, history, and women's and gender studies courses at Kenyon since 1991. Her research field is medieval mysticism, with an emphasis on the performance aspects of mysticism (the public and performative, rather than the private and ineffable, aspects of the mystical experience). She is the author of numerous articles about Hadewijch of Antwerp, a thirteenth-century Beguine. Her most current research concerns the mystical spirituality of communities of women (called Beguines) in 13th and 14th century Flanders. She is the co-editor (with Ellen Kittell) of The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries (Palgrave: 2003), and the co-editor (with Joanna Ziegler) of Performance and Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality (St. Martins, 1999).

E-mail: suydam@kenyon.edu

Courses:

2007-2008

Other Courses

  • RELN 313: Mysticism, Magic and Kaballah in Judaism
  • RELN 91: Blood, Power and Gender in Judaism and Christianity
  • RELN 329: Christian Mysticism
  • RELN 310: The Hebrew Bible
  • RELN 491: Blood, Power, and Gender in Christianity
  • INDS 231: The Holocaust: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry
  • Class Web Projects
  • Marginality and Community in Medieval Europe
  • Blood, Power, and Gender in Christianity and Judaism
  • Blood, Power, and Gender in Western Cultures
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