Natalie Latteri

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Part-Time Faculty

 


 

 

 

Biography

Natalie E. Latteri earned her PhD in History from the University of New Mexico. She teaches Jewish-Christian Relations at USF in the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice. Latteri is a Fellow of the Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Foundation (2016-17) and the American Academy for Jewish Research (2015), among others. Her research interests include interfaith (Jewish-Christian) relations, messianism and apocalypticism, Christian apocrypha, polemic, haunting and possession, and sexuality and gender in religious writings.


EDUCATION
PhD, University of New Mexico
MA, Purdue University
BA, University of California, Davis

EXPERTISE
Interfaith relations in medieval Europe Apocalypticism and Messianism Medieval polemic

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Book Chapters: “Jewish Messianism in the Middle Ages,” in Prognostication in the Middle Ages, ed. Klaus Herbers, Hans-Christian Lehner, and Matthias Heiduk (Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming).
  • “Jewish Apocalypticism: An Historiography,” in A Companion to the Apocalypse, ed. Michael A. Ryan (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 66-101.
  • Refereed Journal Articles: “Dialogue on Disaster: Antichrists in Jewish and Christian Apocalypses and Their Medieval Recensions,” Quidditas 38 (2017): 61-82.
  • “On Saints, Sinners, and Sex in the Apocalypse of Saint John and the Sefer Zerubbabel,” Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal (2016): 1-34.
  • “Playing the Whore: Illicit Union and the Biblical Typology of Promiscuity in the Toledot Yeshu Tradition,” Shofar 33:2 (2015): 87-102.
  • Conference Proceedings: “Infancy Stories of Jesus: Apocrypha and Toledot Yeshu in Medieval Europe,” University of San Francisco Lane Center Speaker Series (forthcoming).
  • Book Reviews: Review of Tzahi Weiss, Sefer Yesirah and Its Contexts: Other Jewish Voices. Journal of Medieval Worlds (forthcoming).