Gennifer Dorgan

Gennifer Dorgan received her BA in German Area Studies from Kenyon College and her MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut. She specializes in high medieval German, English, and Latin literatures with a particular focus on gender, rhetoric, and intertextuality in texts emerging from communities of pious women. Her additional areas of interest include the global history of the book and the ways that medieval texts shape contemporary discussions about identity. Her work has appeared in Early Middle English, American Notes and Queries, and the Harvard Library Bulletin. She has taught German and Latin at Assumption University and is a student of Koine Greek and Ge'ez. Currently, she is studying Hildegard of Bingen's Liber Vitae Meritorium and working on an English translation of the St. Trudperter Hohelied.