The Miraculous Breasts of Christina the Astonishing

Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
Sarah Alison Miller (Classics, Duquesne)
Date: 
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 15:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Humanities Center, Cathedral of Learning, Room 602

Sarah Alison Miller joined the Classics department at Duquesne University in 2008. Professor Miller received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008). Her book, Medieval Monstrosity and the Female Body (Routledge 2010), argues that the female anatomy and its physiological processes were marked as “monstrous”
in medieval medical, erotic, and religious literature.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Non-University Sponsors: 
Humanities Center
World Regions: 
Europe
Russia/Eastern Europe
Western Europe
European Union