Amanda is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate working on a dissertation examining the role of weather and climate in the spiritual beliefs and practices of late-medieval mystic and visionary women. Her dissertation project specifically looks through environmental humanities and ecocritical lenses at the medieval religious and cultural responses to weather and climate events. She is particularly interested in looking at literature through ecocritical and environmental humanities lenses, exploring how humans have historically related to the natural world and how our relationship to the natural world has evolved over time. She is also interested in examining the view of nature in religious and secular medieval and early modern literature, and in examining how our view of nature has evolved into the 21st century. She is the recipient of the 2024-2025 Owens-Keenan Dissertation Fellowship and the 2025-2026 Joseph Trahern Medieval/Renaissance Dissertation Fellowship.  .