Marked With the Wounds of Christ
An Academic Conference on the Stigmatization of St. Francis

Joshua Benson Ph.D.

Joshua C. Benson has published on Franciscan figures and their twelfth-century influences. He has taught a range of theological courses at The Catholic University of America from 2008 to the present, serving between 2018 and 2020 as the chair of Theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University.

Carolyn Muessig Ph.D.

Carolyn Muessig, Chair of Christian Thought, University of Calgary, has published extensively on preaching, monastic history, Jacques de Vitry, Catherine of Siena, and popular devotion in premodern Europe. With Beverly Kienzle she edited Hildegard of Bingen’s Latin homilies. For 17 years, she co-edited with Veronica O’Mara Medieval Sermon Studies. She co-edited Medieval Monastic Education with George Ferzoco. Her recent monograph is Stigmata in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (OuP, 2020). Her current project explores premodern female preachers in Western Europe.