Dr. Kathryne Beebe is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of North Texas. Before joining UNT in August 2018, she taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and at Southeast Missouri State University. Prior to that, she spent almost ten years at the University of Oxford. While there, she was the V.H. Galbraith Teaching & Research Fellow at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She earned her graduate degrees at Pembroke College, Oxford, and was a Junior Research Fellow in History at Balliol College, Oxford. In Summer 2018, she was an invited Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen, at the Collaborative Research Center 923, “Bedrohte Ordnungen.” That was followed by two Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) fellowships, in 2019 and 2022 to pursue research into Observant Reform and the Digital Humanities at the Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften, University of Tübingen. She is currently a 2025-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award-Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck.

Her doctoral research centered on the readership and reception of the four Holy Land pilgrimage narratives written by the fifteenth-century Dominican, Felix Fabri. Her monograph, Pilgrim & Preacher: the Audiences and Observant Spirituality of Friar Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. At present, Kathryne is writing her second monograph, Imagined Pilgrimage, where she is investigating the connection between imagined, or, “virtual” pilgrimage (for travelers who journeyed only in the imagination) and Observant religious reform in medieval Europe. She is also directing or engaged with several Digital Humanities research projects, including The Digital Observance Network.

Bernhard von Breydenbach, “Peregrinatio.” Oxford, Bodleian Library, S.Seld. d.9, detail from the fold-out view of the Holy Land.