Gennifer Dorgan
Ph.D. student
Gennifer Dorgan studies translation, intertextuality, and rhetoric in High and Late Medieval literature by or for women. Her dissertation, entitled The German Prophetess in Latin: Mechthild of Magdeburg and the Lux Divinitatis, demonstrates how the translation of a 13th-century woman's mystical text added an influential female voice to the male-dominated scholastic tradition. Her other interests include global comparative manuscript studies, Latin pedagogy, and adult literacy in the college classroom. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, Early Middle English, and elsewhere, and her work has been supported by the DAAD and the Medieval Academy of America. In addition to her teaching responsibilities at UMass, she has taught German and Latin at Assumption University since 2019.
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.