musicology
Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Fassler studies medieval and American sacred music and the liturgy of the Latin Middle Ages; her subspecialties are liturgical drama of the Middle Ages and Mariology. Her book Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris has received awards from both the American Musicological Society and the Medieval Academy of America. She has edited a volume on the divine office (Oxford University Press), and has just completed a book on the cult of the Virgin Mary at Chartres (forthcoming from Yale University Press).
She is the author of numerous articles on a broad range of topics and is currently preparing a book on the twelfth-century theologian, exegete, and composer Hildegard of Bingen, and a textbook for W. W. Norton. Her book (edited with Harold Attridge) Psalms in Community is now being reprinted and will be sold by the Society of Biblical Literature alongside her latest film, Joyful Noise: Psalms in Community. Under the auspices of a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., Professor Fassler continues to work with congregations and practitioners to make videos of sacred music in its liturgical contexts. She earned a B.A. from the State University of New York, the M.A. from Syracuse University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University.