Susan R. Kramer first became interested in the topic of confession while at the University of Chicago Law School. After practicing corporate tax law for several years in New York City, she took up the topic as a Richard Hofstadter Fellow at Columbia University, where she earned her Ph.D. in Medieval History. She has taught courses on medieval intellectual thought and spirituality at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and General Theological Seminary. To date, her work has appeared in History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person (2007) and Das Eigene und das Ganze. Zum Individuellen im mittelalterlichen Religiosentum (2002), as well as the journals Viator and Church History. She is currently researching medieval forms of punishment and the church's attitude toward the use of force.
