Margot Fassler
Keough Hesburgh Professor Emerita of Music History and Liturgy
- Department
- Sacred Music
- College or School
- College of Arts and Letters
- Year of Emeritus Status 2022
Margot Fassler, Keough-Hesburgh Professor (Emerita) of Music History and Liturgy, University of Notre Dame, was Director, ND's Program in Sacred Music, and is Tangeman Professor of Music History, Emerita, Yale University. Recent books include Cosmos, Liturgy and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022); Music in the Medieval West and its accompanying 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), and Medieval Cantors and Their Craft (ed. with Katie Bugyis and AB Kraebel) York Medieval Press, 2017.
Fassler is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a former President of the Medieval Academy of America, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society, and a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Her digital work includes documentary studies of contemporary congregations. A model of creation and cosmos based on the illuminations of Scivias (with Christian Jara and Brian Wolff) will appear in 2023. These works have been supported by grants from the Luce Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the ACLS. In 2019-20, Fassler was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Fassler grew up on a farm in upstate New York, near Syracuse, and is now writing a short history of her home town and changes in rural life in recent decades. The book studies transformation of the land and in its people, beginning with the first settlers of the town in the early 19th century, most of whom were abolitionists from Connecticut.
Email: mfassler@nd.edu