Lisa Marie Bitel

Professor of History and Gender Studies Chair, Gender Studies Program

Lisa M. Bitel is professor of history, gender studies, and religion and chair of the gender studies program at the University of Southern California. She studies the social, cultural, and religious history of medieval Europe. She has written four books about religion and/or gender in early medieval Europe, and published articles about sex, dreams, architecture, and Christianity, among other topics. She is currently researching two books about religious vision: a book on the material history of medieval visions and a collaborative book about a modern-day vision event in the Mojave desert. She is author, most recently, of Landscape with Two Saints: How Saint Genovefa of Paris and Saint Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe (Oxford University Press, 2009). Professor Bitel is the director and editor of Monastic Matrix (http://monasticmatrix.org/).