Rosalynn Voaden is Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, where she teaches medieval literature, and an introductory course in Canadian Literature. Her research focuses on the cultural and political forces shaping the writing and reception of women visionaries in the late Middle Ages. She is the author of
God’s Words, Women’s Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries (1999) and of several articles on medieval mysticism. In addition, she is editor or co-editor of five volumes on medieval religious writing, most recently
Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition, c.1100 - c.1500 (2010).