Education:
Ph.D., Yale University - 2013 (History)
M.A., Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto - 2006 (Medieval Studies)
B.A., Columbia College, Columbia University - 2005 (English/Medieval Studies)
Areas of Expertise:
Mancia's current book project examines the spiritual writings of the Benedictine abbot John of Fécamp (ca. 990-1078 C.E.), who is responsible for the earliest known prayers to a suffering, crucified Christ. Drawing on the intellectual, visual, homiletic and liturgical culture of John's Norman monastery, her work sheds light on the emotional qualities of Benedictine monastic devotion and reform in the 11th century, and the high medieval monastic origins of later medieval affective piety.
Books and Publications
"John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy." Anglo-Norman Studies 37. Expected 2015. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2015
"Reading Augustine's Confessions in Normandy in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries." Tabularia "Études." Eds. M. Peyrafort, P. Bauduin, P. Bouet and C. Jacquernard. December 2014. (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2014
Review of Studies on Medieval Empathies. Series: Disputatio 25 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013). Eds. Karl F. Morrison and Rudolph M. Bell. The Medieval Review, March 11. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2014
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
HSS Mini-Grant, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
PSC-CUNY grant. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
Elizabeth Ann Bogert Grant for the Study of Christian Mysticism. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Etienne Gilson Dissertation Grant, Medieval Academy of America. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Fulbright Research Grant to France. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
John B. and Theta H. Wolf Travel Fellowship, Society for French Historical Studies. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
Travel Bursary for the Study of Medieval Languages & Literature, Medium Aevum. (Grants and Fellowships) 2012
National Organization of Italian American Women Scholarship. (Grants and Fellowships) 2010
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
"'Harming to Help' and Affective Reform at Eleventh-Century Fécamp." International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, July 6-9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"John of Fécamp, Monastic Discipline, and Abbatial Empathy." Colloquium of the Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Brooklyn College Faculty Working Group. Feb 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
Roundtable participant, "Getting Medieval at Brooklyn College." Brooklyn College Faculty Day, 12:45-2:15pm, May 20. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2015
"Jesus Through the Middle Ages: The Development of the Image and Doctrine of Christ in Medieval Christianity." St. Francis College. Brooklyn, N.Y., April 4. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"John of Fécamp and Affective Reform in Eleventh-Century Normandy." Battle Conference of Anglo-Norman Studies. Winchester, United Kingdom, July 29. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Reading John of Fécamp in an Eleventh-Century Monastery." Brooklyn College's Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern Faculty Working Group Colloquium. May 1. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Realizing Prayer in the Material: The Devotional Culture of the Eleventh-Century Monastery of Fécamp." Medieval Materiality. University of Colorado at Boulder. Oct. 23-25. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Religious Reform as Emotional Reform in the Eleventh-Century Monastery of John of Fécamp." Friends of the Saints. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Dec. 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"The Art of Reform at Fécamp." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich. May 8-11. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"The Invention of a Suffering God: Emotional Reform of Devotional Practice in a Medieval Monastery." Varieties of Academic Experience: Religious Studies at Brooklyn College Panel. Faculty Day. Brooklyn College. May 21. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014
"Visualizing Emotion: Cultivating Empathy and Modeling the Ineffable in Medieval Art." Department of Art History, Wellesley College. Wellesley, Mass., April 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Participant, "Persecution, Punishment, Purgatory" faculty roundtable. 10th Annual Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 7. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
Speaker in the "Medieval and Renaissance Lives" series of Columbia/Barnard's Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program. Barnard College. New York, Oct. 8. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014
"Jean de Fécamp et la culture religieuse à son monastère au XI siècle." Journée d'études on the monastery of Fécamp. Université de Caen Basse-Normandie. Caen, France, June 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"John at Fécamp." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9-12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Monastic Reform, Monastic Devotion, and the History of Emotions." New Directions in Medieval Scholarship Panel. CUNY Graduate Center. New York, Nov. 15. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013
"Reading John of Fécamp in an Eleventh-Century Monastery." Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting. University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Knoxville, Tenn., April 4-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
"Emotional Reform in the Eleventh-Century Monastery: The Case of John of Fécamp." Conventus Medieval Seminar. Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Ghent University. Ghent, Belgium, May 23. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"Writing a History of Religious Experience: The Case of John of Fécamp." Groupe de recherche sur les pouvoirs et les societés de l'Occident médiéval et moderne" Grepsomm, Université de Québec à Montréal. Montreal, Dec. 14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012
"The Monks of Fécamp and Their Ducal Patrons: Transformations of the Eleventh Century." Charles Homer Haskins Society Annual Meeting. Boston College. Boston, Nov. 4-6. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011
"More Than Alpha et Omega: God the Father in Medieval York." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008
"A City for All the Faithful: Representations of the City of God in Two Canterbury Manuscripts of Augustine's De Civitate Dei." International Medieval Congress. University of Leeds. Leeds, United Kingdom, July 12. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007
Professional Leadership
Organizer, Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern (LAMEM) Faculty Working Group. Brooklyn College. E-mail for more information; Colloquium schedule is here: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/socialsciences/undergraduate/history/news/lamem.php. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2015
Community Activities
"Problems in Medieval Art." The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 12pm and 2pm, Feb. 21. 2015
"The Art of Monastic Reform." The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 12pm and 2pm, Aug. 1. 2015
Other Professional Activities
Featured guest on three History Café podcasts (out of Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vt.): "History Café Visits the Met I: The Cloisters' Gothic Chapel"; "History Café Visits the Met II: Medieval Mysticism"; and "Affective Piety with Lauren Mancia." Listen here for free: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-history-cafe/id701289889?mt=2 2015
