Overview
Ryanne Berry is a first-year Ph.D. student in Medieval Studies. Her research explores the relationship between the devotional and the literary in late medieval English and French texts. She is particularly interested in women’s visionary writings, devotional material, mystical theology, and manuscript studies. In 2023, Ryanne earned an M.A. in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Columbia University. Her master's thesis explored the question of apophatic theology and “negative poetics” in Julian of Norwich’s Showings.