Claire Taylor Jones

Claire Taylor Jones is Associate Professor of German and a Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Her scholarship explores the cultures, processes, and practices of piety and reform among Dominican nuns in late medieval Germany. She is the author of Ruling the Spirit: Women, Liturgy, and Dominican Reform in Late Medieval Germany (2018), as well as several articles and essays on broader aspects of religious culture and literature in late medieval Germany. Her research has been supported by the DAAD, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.