Marcela K. Perett received her BA in English Literature and Environmental Economics from Middlebury College, her MTS in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, and her PhD in Medieval History from the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame.

Her research interests include late medieval religious culture, notions of heresy and of orthodoxy, religious propaganda and Christian radicalism. Her dissertation studied the emergence and public appeal of the Hussite religious and political movement in fifteenth-century Bohemia, exploring the question how theological and philosophical ideas inspired distinct religious groups and how they shaped their identities. 

She has taught classes on Western civilization, medieval history, heresy and the Black Death at the University of Notre Dame. She has been awarded the Edward Sorin Fellowship at Notre Dame and the Solmsen Fellowship from the Institute Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Most recently, her work has appeared in the Viator.