Tine Van Osselaer

Tine Van Osselaer is Research Professor in the history of spirituality, devotion and mysticism at the Ruusbroec Institute of the University of Antwerp. In the last years, she has published on gender and religion (The pious sex. Catholic constructions of masculinity and femininity in Belgium, c. 1800-1940, 2013; "Stigmatic women in modern Europe. An exploratory note on gender, corporeality and Catholic culture", in M. Mazoyer and P. Mirault, ed., Évolutions et transformations du mariage dans le christianisme, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2017, p. 269-289); and edited volumes on religion and the family (Christian homes. Religion, family and domesticity in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, 2014), and on corporeality and emotions. She also is the principal investigator of STIGMATICS: “Between saints and celebrities. The devotion and promotion of stigmatics in Europe, c.1800-1950”, a project sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant).