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Dr. Beringer is Associate Professor of Classics and General Humanities. She holds the M.A. in Classics from the University of Victoria and the Ph.D. in German Studies from Princeton University. Her research focuses on Latin and vernacular texts and their manuscript transmission and illustration in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern.

Dr. Beringer’s first book The Sight of Semiramis: Medieval and Early Modern Narratives of the Babylonian Queen (Arizona State University Press, 2016), is a study of the literary and artistic representations of the title figure from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century. She recently co-edited Gender Bonds, Gender Binds. Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature (De Gruyter, 2021).

Before coming to Montclair State, Dr. Beringer taught German, medieval and contemporary European literature and culture, and a broad selection of texts from the ancient world in translation at Emory, Colgate, and the University of British Columbia. Combining her literary and art historical interests, she also held an appointment as Reader at Princeton University’s Index of Christian Art.

At Montclair State, Dr. Beringer teaches in the Humanities Program and in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program. She has recently taught courses on medieval women and gender and Viking mythology.

Specialization

Death and dying in literature
Literature and the visual arts
Medieval and early modern German literature
Medieval manuscript culture
Reception of Antiquity
Bible translation
Women's and gender studies
History of the book

Office Hours

Spring

Tuesday

8:45 am - 9:45 am

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

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