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Alison Beringer

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Alison Beringer is a Residential Fellow of the National Humanities Center in Durham, North Carolina. She has been Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities at Montclair State University since 2011, teaching courses in literary history, women’s studies, and medieval literature and culture. Alison holds the M.A. in Classics from the University of Victoria and the Ph.D. in German Studies from Princeton University. Her scholarly research focuses on the transmission and illustration of Latin and German literature in the medieval and early modern periods. Her first book, The Sight of Semiramis, appeared in 2016, and was followed in 2020 by the publication of Gender Bonds, Gender Binds. Her current project is a study of the place of monumental sculpture in the life and literature of the late Middle Ages. A native of Canada, Alison lives in North Carolina and in northern New Jersey and birds widely in the Americas and Europe, most often with her husband, Rick Wright.