Margot Elsbeth Fassler is an American music and Christianity historian, currently the Keough-Hesburgh Professor Professor of Music History and Liturgy at

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Cathol ...

Education

She completed her PhD at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

Career

She is currently the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy,

Awards and honours

She is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a former President of the

Medieval Academy of America The Medieval Academy of America (MAA; spelled Mediaeval until ) is the largest organization in the United States promoting the field of medieval studies. It was founded in 1925 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The academy publishes the q ...

, a fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and other ...

, and an Honorary Member of the

American Musicological Society The American Musicological Society (AMS) is a musicological organization which researches, promotes and produces publications on music. Founded in 1934, the AMS was begun by leading American musicologists of the time, and was crucial in legiti ...

Bibliography

Her notable books include: * ''The Religious Lyric in Medieval England (1150–1400)'' * ''The Feast of Fools and Danielis Ludus: Popular Tradition in a Medieval Cathedral Play'' * ''Music and the miraculous: Mary in the Mid-Thirteenth-Century Dominican sequence repertory'' * ''Musical exegesis in the sequences of Adam and the canons of St. Victor'' *

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fassler, Margot Elsbeth Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Notre Dame faculty American music historians American theologians Syracuse University alumni Cornell University alumni Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Hildegard scholars Scholars of Medieval music