Kathryn Dickason is a Visiting Scholar at USC in the School of Religion.  Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at USC, with a joint appointment in the School of Religion and the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. She specializes in Western medieval Christianity (c. 1200-1450), with particular interests in performance, iconography, gender, mysticism, embodiment, dance history, French literature, Dante and medievalism. In December 2020, Dickason published her book Ringleaders of Redemption: How Medieval Dance Became Sacred with Oxford University Press, which can be purchased at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ringleaders-of-redemption-9780197527276?cc=us&lang=en&.