Danielle Dubois

• RLGN 1450 - Religion and Media
• RLGN 2114 - Monks, Mystics and Manuscripts in Medieval Christianity
• RLGN 2120 - Faith and Reason
• RLGN 2680 - Women and Religion
• RLGN 3290 - Transformation of the Self in Philosophy and Religion
• RLGN 3530 - Contemporary Issues 1: Religion and Artificial Intelligence
   

I have been in the Department of Religion since 2012. My teaching covers medieval and early modern Christianity but also feminism and religion, and modern contemplative traditions. I like to explore the library’s Archives and Rare Books collection with students and have conducted archival research in France, Italy, England and the US.

• PhD (Humanities), Johns Hopkins University, 2012
• MA (Philosophy), Université de Montréal, 2005
• BA Honours (Philosophy), University of Saskatchewan, 2001 

Research summary

My research focuses on topics at the intersection of religion and philosophy, history, usually in the medieval period. My book The Afterlives of Marguerite Porete: From Heretic to Author exposes the surprising posthumous memory of the medieval beguine burned as a heretic on Paris’ Place de Grève in 1310, and rediscovered by anti-Protestant French historians. I have also conducted ethnographic research with modern beguines in Italy and explored the unacknowledged contributions of independent women scholars to the study of medieval Christianity in the twentieth century.

• The Afterlives of Marguerite Porete: From Heretic to Author. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (forthcoming)
• “Pauline Savari’s Practical Feminism in the Belle Époque: Unionization, Cooperatives and Insurance for Working Mothers (1887-1907),” Women’s History Review, 30:1, 2020: 86–107.
• “Transmitting the Memory of a Medieval Heretic: Early Modern French Historians on Marguerite Porete,” French Historical Studies, 41:4, 2018: 579–610.
• “Natural and Supernatural Virtues in the Thirteenth Century: The Case of Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls.” Journal of Medieval History 43.2, 2017: 174–192.
• “The Virtuous Fall: Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhart, and the Medieval Ethics of Sin.” Journal of Religious Ethics 43.3, 2015: 432–453.
• “From Contemplative Penitent to Annihilated Soul: The Recasting of Mary Magdalene in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls.” The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 39.2, 2013: 149–172.

• 2017-2022 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Development Grant.
• 2017 - UM/SSHRC Travel Grant.