E. Ann Matter (born December 29, 1949)[1] is former Associate Dean for Arts & Letters and Professor of Religious Studies Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania.
[2] She specializes in Medieval Christianity, including mysticism, women and religion, sexuality and religion, manuscript and textual studies, biblical interpretation and sacred music.
[2][3] In 1976, Matter began to teach at the University of Pennsylvania, where, in 1996, she was elected R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Religious Studies.
[2][3] In 2005, Matter was appointed William R. Kenan Professor of Religious Studies[4] and in 2006 to the post of Associate Dean for Arts & Letters, with responsibility for all 12 of the University's humanities departments.
[5] In 1992, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship[2][4] and, in 2003, she was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.