Christine Cooper-Rompato

Biography

Christine Cooper-Rompato is a professor of English and a member of the Religious Studies Program. Her research focuses on later medieval religious literature and culture, and her book, Spiritual Calculations: Number and Numeracy in Late Medieval English Sermons, was recently published by Pennsylvania State University Press. Her first book, The Gift of Tongues: Women’s Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages, was published in 2010 by PSUP, and her essays have appeared in a range of journals and book collections including the Chaucer Review, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, Magistra, and Notes & Queries. Cooper-Rompato also researches and writes on more recent history, including nineteenth-century mathematics and technology, and her essays have been published in journals including the Utah Historical Quarterly and the New Mexico Historical Review.

Dr. CR (as her students call her) teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English, ranging from Introduction to Literary Analysis (ENGL 2600) to graduate seminars on Chaucer, Medieval Christian Pilgrimage, Medieval Visionary Writings, and Old Norse & Modern Fantasy Literature. She is the Sigma Tau Delta English honors society advisor, as well as the advisor for the new department-wide “English Club.” She enjoys teaching and mentoring students and is always looking for students eager to work on research projects to present at the USU Research Symposium.

Cooper-Rompato serves on a number of departmental and university committees, and she is a member of USU’s Equity Office’s hearing panel. For ten years she co-edited the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (previously Mystics Quarterly).