Barbara Zimbalist
Assistant Professor of English, UTEP, PhD University of California-Davis, bezimbalist@utep.edu
Barbara Zimbalist is a medievalist specializing in the vernacular religious literatures of England, France, and the Low Countries. As a Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, she worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Antwerp’s Ruusbroec Institute, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Liège. She has published articles and book chapters on Middle English devotional literature, medieval Flemish mysticism, and Anglo-Norman hagiography. In addition to her primary research interest in high- and late-medieval religious cultures, she also pursues research in manuscript studies and book history and in the intersection of critical theory and medieval studies. Her current project compares the translation and textual production of women’s visionary texts from medieval England and the Low Countries, examining authors such as Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Hadewijch of Brabant. She is also researching a future project tracing the manuscript culture of dynastic genealogy in late-medieval England.