'The Protestants and the Prophetess: Mechthild of Magdeburg from Nun to National Symbol' with Gennifer Dorgan, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Gennifer Dorgan is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her BA in German Area Studies from Kenyon College and her MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Connecticut. 

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 the Harvard Library Bulletin. 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.