Barbara Newman

Professor of English, Religion, and Classics, John Evans Professor of Latin, Director of Graduate Studies

University Hall Room 304
Telephone: (847) 491-5679
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: bjnewman@northwestern.edu

Professor Newman (Ph.D. Yale) is known for her work on medieval religious culture, allegorical poetry, and women's spirituality. Her most recent book, Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece (Penn State U. Press), was published in 2006. She is also the author of God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages (2002) and From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (1995), as well as three works on Hildegard of Bingen: an edited volume, Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World (1998); an edition and translation of Hildegard's collected songs, Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (1988, rev. 1998); and Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (1987). Professor Newman has been a Fellow of the Medieval Academy, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities at Northwestern. She holds the John Evans Chair of Latin Language and Literature and previously held a Charles Deering McCormick Chair of Teaching Excellence (2003-06).

Review of God and the Goddesses

Curriculum Vitae

Publications by Barbara Newman

Frauenlob's Song of Songs: A Medieval German Poet and His Masterpiece (2007)

God and the Goddesses: Vision Poetry and Belief in the Middle Ages (2002)

Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World (1998)

From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature (1995)

Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine (1987)

Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations (rev ed. 1998)

Life of Juliana of Mont-Cornillon (translation, 1988)

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