Annual Bennett Lecture: Margot Fassler

This year's PIMS / CMS W. John Bennett Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Margot Fassler presents: Women’s Voices in the Mass Liturgy: Sequence Repertories within Various Female Communities.

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Biography

Bennett Fellow, 2024, Margot Fassler, is Keough-Hesburgh Professor Emerita of Music History and Liturgy, University of Notre Dame and Robert Tangeman Professor Emerita of Music History, Yale University. Her books include The Virgin of Chartres (Yale, 2010); Music in the Medieval West and Anthology (New York, 2014); (with Jeffery Hamburger, Eva Schlotheuber, and Susan Marti) Life and Latin Learning at Paradies bei Soest, 1300-1425: Inscription and Illumination in the Choir Books of a North German Dominican Convent, 2 vols. (Munster, 2016); Medieval Cantors and Their Craft (ed. with Katie Bugyis and AB Kraebel) (York, 2017), and Cosmos, Liturgy and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias (Philadelphia, 2023). Professor Fassler is now working on a book with Professor Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge, and editing the volume Art, Artistry and Liturgy in the Medieval Book with Professor Eva Schotheuber, University of Düsseldorf. Digital work includes several documentary films on various aspects of sacred music, and now the project “The Medieval Liturgy: Tutorials for Students, Teachers and Researchers” with Professor Katie Buygis of Notre Dame. This interactive teaching venture on the medieval liturgy is supported by the University of Notre Dame and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Fassler is a former president of the Medieval Academy of America, a fellow of the Medieval Academy, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary member of the American Musicological Society.