Sara Ritchey is distinguished professor in the humanities and professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she writes about religion, gender, medicine, and the body across media such as The New York Times, Aeon, and The American Historical Review.
She is the author of, Acts of Care: Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health (Cornell UP, 2021), Holy Matter: Changing Perceptions of the Material World in Late Medieval Christianity (Cornell UP, 2014), and co-editor of the award-winning collection Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550 and of the Special Issue of Gender & History, "Health, Healing and Caring" (33.3, 2021).
She is co-editor in chief of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.
She is presently writing a book entitled, Chansons créoles: A New Genealogy of the French Middle Ages. You can read more about it under the "Current Work" tab.