ELLEN JOYCE

ELLEN JOYCE is an Associate Professor of History in Beloit, Wisconsin, where she also Teaches for the Medieval Studies minor. She frequently teaches courses on medieval manuscripts and aspects of religious and intellectual history in the Middle Ages. Dr. Joyce was on the staff of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library and taught courses in Department of Theology at Saint John’s University during the early years of The Saint John’s Bible’s production; serving on the CIT was an inspiring and formative experience for her. She received her Bachelor’s degree in humanities from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and her Master’s and Ph.D. in medieval studies from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Joyce continues to develop undergraduate courses that revolve around issues of reading, writing, and book production in pre-modern European History.  From 2022-2024 she held an M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources from Rare Book School at the University of Virginia; the new course she developed on the history of the book in the age of the printing press makes use of rare books in Beloit College’s special collections. She is always happy to come back to HMML and to Collegeville to see the collections there and to visit The Saint John’s Bible gallery.