Olivia Caroline Geraci
Education
BA in Classics, University of Chicago; MA in Medieval Studies, Fordham University
Year of Matriculation
2024
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Areas of Interest
Female monasticism, mysticism and spirituality, manuscript studies, digital humanities
Profile
Olivia Caroline Geraci's research centers around, on the one hand, the institutional and, on the other, the devotional lives of professed women religious in late medieval Europe. She is the founding editor of Medieval English Women Religious (MERW), an online digital prosopography that collects bibliographic information from documentary sources about women religious in England from roughly 1250 to the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Recent Scholarly Activity
- November 2024: “Testators and Women Religious: Perceptions of Piety in Late Medieval London.” North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, CO.
- May 2024: “Willing Piety: Women, Wills, and Religious Vocations in Late Medieval London.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.
- 2024 Recipient of the Richard and Peggy Notebaert Premier Fellowship, University of Notre Dame.
- 2023 Recipient of the Mary Magdalene Impact Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University.