Monograph:
Fassler, Margot. Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023.
Peer Reviewed Essays:
“The Religious Lyric in Medieval England (1150–1400): Three Disciplines and a Question.” In What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?, edited by Cristina Maria Cervone and Nicholas Watson, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022, pp. 268–302.
“Soundings within and without the “Temple”: Liturgical Voices in the Purification Procession." In Eva Schlotheuber, and Sigrid Hirbodian, Zwischen Klausur und Welt : Autonomie und Interaktion spätmittelalterlicher geistlicher Frauengemeinschaften. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2022.
Invited essays which have been submitted for peer-reviewed publications:
“The Dominican Magdalene” has been submitted to the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies for a volume on the Dominican Liturgy.
Essay on Women and Music for the Cambridge Companion to Women Composers (soon to appear).
Essay on Time for the Cultural History of the Middle Ages, ed. Susan Boynton (soon to appear).
Essay on the Middle Ages for the Oxford Handbook of Music and Christian Theology, Alex Lingas, ed. (final proofs submitted).
“Magdalene at St. George: Exercising Liturgical Imaginations through the Office, “ final proofs submitted for a book on two communities of nuns, ed. Jeffrey Hamburger and Eva Schlotheuber.
Essay on the Sublime in the Latin Middle Ages, submitted for the Oxford History of the Sublime, ed. Philip Hardie.
Invited Lectures and Research Trips:
Late May, Early June, 2022: Research trip to Klosterneuburg, sponsored by Humboldt Foundation, presentation at a conference in Klosterneuburg.
Trip for research at the Austrian National Library, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute.
Trip to Libraries in Northern France and Belgium, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute.
Mid-June, 2022 trip to Dayton to meet with Stewart Rose, Sponsored by Hesburgh Library and Development.
June 27, 2022 Invited Keynote lecture at the Cushwa Center and Presentation in the Planetarium.
July 18, 2022 gave an invited lecture digitally at a conference in Prague, CZ (I was supposed to attend in person, and would have been sponsored, but was too ill to go).
Late September, 2022, Invited Presentation at the Music Department and Medieval Studies, Oslo University, Norway; also serving on the international board for the Benedicamus Domino project, Professor Catherine Bradley, PI.
Early March, 2023 Gave an invited presentation at a conference in PIMS, Toronto on Dominican chant and liturgy.
Early April, 2023 Gave an invited Keynote address at St. Louis University, Program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Early May, 2023 Chaired a session at the International Congress for Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI.
Late May, 2023 Research travel to Prague, CZ, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute.
Early June, 2023 Invited Presentation at the Boston Early Music Festival.
Late June, travel to Denver for a week of research at History Colorado, the Denver Public Library, and at Leadville Colorado.
August, Gave a keynote address to the Conference of Women Religious.
Sept. 2023, Presented at the Koerner Center, Yale University.
November, 2023, Presented on a round-table at the American Musicological Society. I served on the Program Committee for this meeting.
December, 2023, Presented at the University of Michigan.
Grants and fellowships:
Grant from ND for 100K to work on Website for Teaching the Medieval Liturgy (with Katie Bugyis), 2022.
Awarded an NEH grant (with Katie Bugyis) (150K), 2023.
Received travel grants from the Nanovic Institute, 2023.
Was named the Derek Brewer Visiting Fellow at Emmanuel College for Easter Term 2024.
Was named the Bennett Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto, Fall, 2024.
Community Service:
I was the advisor for two DMA students who graduated in August, 2023, Emorja Roberson and Howard Eckdahl; serve on exam committees of three doctoral students, Macie Sweet, Theology, and Eleonora Celora and Kristie Kummerer, Medieval Institute; mentoring DMA students in SMND.
Worked on Exam questions for DMA doctoral exams and attended the defenses.
Reviewed submissions for Speculum, Gesta, the Journal of Musicology, the Journal of Plainsong and Medieval Music, and the Journal of the American Musicological Society; evaluated several cases for promotion and tenure.
Teaching for the Medieval Institute High School Course on the Middle Ages.
I have also published two essays in the Queen Central News, Camden, NY, this past fall. I am active in the local Historical Society when I’m home.