Renate Elisabeth Blumenfeld-Kosinski, also known as Renate Kosinski, (born 1952) is a German-American medievalist, literary historian, scholar of medieval French literature, editor, writer, and academic. She is known for her books and research on medieval political texts, mysticism, medieval visionary women, religious literature, saints' lives, and the Great Schism of the Western Church. As of 2019, Blumenfeld-Kosinski is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh, and has been a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (MAA) since 2014. She served as the president of the MAA from 2020 to 2021. Blumenfeld-Kosinski won the 2022 Scholarly Edition in Translation Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG) for her translation of ''Two Lives of Saint Colette: With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette'' (2022, Iter Press).
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