Pamela Beattie is Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary and Public Humanites. where she is an Associate Professor of Medieval Studies She is an affiliate member of both the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research. She has taught at the University of Louisville since 1995 and is an A&S Distinguished Teaching Professor.

She is a specialist on the life and works of the thirteenth-century Catalan polymath Ramon Llull (1232–1316) through which lens she conducts research on the history and culture(s) of the medieval Mediterranean; interreligious dialogue and polemic between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in medieval Iberia; vernacular theology; and late medieval religious culture with an emphasis on the intersection between scholastic and lay theology. Her recent research has focused on two main areas: (1) translation, vernacular literature, and questions of religious orthodoxy and heresy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and (2) points of contact between classical, medieval, and post-colonial literatures and visual cultures.