Barbara Zimbalist
Dr. Zimbalist is the Director of the Literature Program and the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ Advisor for English and American Literature. She is a medievalist specializing in the women’s religious literature from England, France, and the Low Countries. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California-Davis in 2013, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, and a Research Fellow at Harvard Divinity School. In 2018, Dr. Zimbalist received the Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award. She is a Provost’s Faculty Development Fellow for 2023-24.
Dr. Zimbalist has published articles and book chapters on Middle English devotional literature, medieval Flemish mysticism, and Anglo-Norman hagiography. Her recent book, Translating Christ in the Middle Ages: Gender, Authorship, and the Visionary Text in England, France, and the Low Countries, was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2022. Her edited collection, Writing Holiness Across Boundaries will appear from Brepols Publishers in 2023. In addition to her primary research interest in medieval religious cultures, she also works in manuscript studies and book history and the intersection of critical theory and medieval studies. She has taught courses in Chaucer, critical theory, and early British literature. Dr. Zimbalist is the co-editor of The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures and an associate editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages. She is currently the faculty advisor for ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ’s Alpha Iota Beta chapter of Sigma Tau Delta.
Contact Information
Email: bezimbalist@utep.edu
Phone: 915-747-5137
Hudspeth Hall 219
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PhD, University of California at Davis
Associate Professor