Kent Navalesi, Ph.D.

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Education

2020 Ph.D. History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2010 M.A. Social Sciences University of Chicago 2008 B.A. History University of New Mexico

Teaching Experience

2021-2022 Postdoctoral Scholar, Lewis Honors College, University of Kentucky HON 140 Knowledge and Society HON 151 Women and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe HON 151 Religion and Daily Life in Late Antiquity HON 151 Relics in Antiquity and the Middle Ages 2013-2020 Instructor of Record, Department of History, UIUC HIST 141 Western Civilization I HIST 245 Women and Gender in Pre-Modern Europe HIST 247 Medieval Europe HIST 498 Late Antiquity 2013-2020 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, UIUC HIST 100 The Global Middle Ages HIST 141 Western Civilization I HIST 142 European Civ. 1750-Present HIST 241 Roman Empire CLCV 115 Mythology of Greece and Rome 2019 Tutor, SAT and TOEFL English Language, UIUC

Publications

Books The Prose Lives of Venantius Fortunatus: Hagiography and the Laity in Sixth-Century Gaul. Amsterdam University Press (under contract).

Peer-Reviewed Articles 2024
“The Queen versus the Bishop: Marriage, Death, and Church Politics in Venantius Fortunatus’ Vita sancti Hilarii.” Journal of Late Antiquity (under review)

2022 ‘Written on the Parchment of the Heart’: Memory, Writing and Pastoral Care in the Prose Lives of Venantius Fortunatus,” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 49.2 (2022): 185-206.

Book Reviews 2019 “Book Note: Stefan Esders, Yitzhak Hen, et. al., The Merovingian Kingdoms and the Mediterranean World: Revisiting the Sources. Bloomsbury, 2019,” Ancient Jew Review

Contributions to Online Databases

2021 The Life of Hilary The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity The Life of Germanus The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity 2019 The Life of Radegund The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity The Life of Marcellus The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity The Life of Albinus The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity 2018 A Letter from Bishop Nicetius of Trier Epistolae: Medieval Women's Latin Letters

Conference Presentations

2024 The Prose Lives of Venantius Fortunatus and Their Possible Homiletic Nachleben” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9-11, 2024.

Abra Cadaver? Female Asceticism and Political Crisis in Venantius Fortunatus' Vita Hilarii” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 1-4, 2024.

2018 “In Cordis Membrana: Memory, Writing and Living Tradition in the Prose Lives of Venantius Fortunatus” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2-5, 2018.

Session Chair: “Platinum Latin: Manuscripts and Editing” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 10-13, 2018.

2017 “Lay Piety and Religious Outsiders in Venantius Fortunatus’ Prose Hagiography” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 3-6, 2017.

“Ad aedificationem plebis: Lay Piety and Pastoral Care in Venantius Fortunatus’ Prose Hagiography” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11-14, 2017.

2015 “Pudore mota muliebri: Women and Pastoral Care in Venantius Fortunatus' Prose Hagiography” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 6-9, 2015.

“Venantius Fortunatus' Treatment of Women in his Prose Hagiography” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 14-17, 2015.

2013 “The Prose Vitae of Venantius Fortunatus and Cult Formation in Sixth-Century Gaul” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9-12, 2013