On April 14 the Center hosted guest presenters Alison Weber, PhD., and Jodi Bilinkoff, PhD., for a conversation about the life and spirituality of the recently beatified Carmelite nun, Bl. Anne of Jesus, who was a contemporary of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross.
Although this presentation was not recorded, more information about Bl. Anne of Jesus can be found in this article here: https://www.discalcedcarmel.org/blog/venerable-ann-of-jesus-on-the-400th-anniversary-of-her-death
Alison Weber is Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia, where she was a member of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She is the author of Teresa of Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity and the editor of Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Avila, Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World, and Jesuits and Idea of Family in Early Modern Europe. She has published numerous essays and articles on Spanish literature, female monasticism, and religious discourse in Early Modern Spain. She is now working on a book on relations between men and women in the Discalced Carmelite Reform.
Jodi Bilinkoff is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, from which she will soon retire after 42 years of teaching. She is the author of The Avila of Saint Teresa: Religious Reform in a Sixteenth-Century City, Related Lives: Confessors and Their Female Penitents, 1450-1750, and other publications exploring religion, gender, and life-writing in early modern Catholic Europe, especially Spain. Her presentation derives from her book-in-progress, John of the Cross (1542-91): The History, Mystery, and Memory of a Spanish Saint.