Laura Moncion
First Name:
Laura
Last Name:
Moncion
Email :
laura.moncion@mail.utoronto.ca
Title:
PhD Student
Education:
McGill University (BA Joint Hons. History and Religious Studies, 2013)
Memorial University of Newfoundland (MPhil Humanities, 2016)
University of Toronto (MA Medieval Studies, 2017)
People Type:
Areas of Interest:
medieval and early modern religious history, gender history, historiography and methodology
Program:
Cohort:
1st Major:
History
1st Minor:
Religious Studies
Dissertation Title:
"Women Recluses in Late-medieval Strasbourg, 1200-1500"
Dissertation Supervisors:
Isabelle Cochelin
Shami Ghosh
Presentations:
Jan. 2020: “Reading Recluse Rules: the Admonitio ad Nonsuindam reclusam, the Regula solitariorum, and the Waldregel”. Medieval Women Workshop III, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada
Sept. 2019: “Crossing the Threshold: Recluses and their Servants”. The Diversity of Service in Premodern Europe, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
May 2018: “Death and the Recluse: the Death Drive in Mysticism and History”. Medieval Mystical Theology in Dialogue with Contemporary Thought, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
July 2016: “Paradoxes of Proximity: Food and Community in Julian of Norwich”. Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, Leeds, UK
June 2015: “Commemoration, Queer Time, and Affect”. HistoryLab Postgraduate Conference: Celebrated, Commemorated, Forgotten, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, London, UK
July 2014: “Ce regard terrestre: Epistemology of Sight in Marguerite de Navarre's Spiritual Poetry”. Society for the Study of French History 28th Annual Conference: History and the Senses, Durham University, Durham, UK
Administrative Service:
Member, Academic Program Committee (2020-present)
Chair, CMS Student Executive Committee (2019-2020)
Member, Modern Languages Committee (2018-2019)
Member, Sources and Resources Student Committee (2016-2019)
