Gustavus Adolphus College

Assistant Professor
Religion

B.A., Smith College, 1978; M.T.S., Weston Jesuit Theological School, 1996; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1997, 2001

Professor Goodwin teaches in the area of History of Christianity, including introductory courses, and courses in Catholicism, Jewish-Christian relations, theological approaches to the problem of evil, and Women’s Studies. Her teaching and research interests include the early and medieval Latin West, especially the history of interpretation and the social history of the Christian tradition.

Goodwin was a finalist for the Swenson-Bunn Teaching Award, Gustavus Adolphus College, 2001–2002 and received the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award for Excellence in Teaching while a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame. Her publications include Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew: Herbert of Bosham’s Christian Hebraism, “Herbert of Bosham and the Horizons of Twelfth-Century Exegesis,” Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Thought, History, and Religion, December 2003. She has also made public presentations at Western Michigian University, the International Congress on Medieval Studies, the University of Chicago Divinity School, and the University of Leeds. At Gustavus since 2001.

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