Ph.D.,
Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal, 2000
B.Ed.,
Secondary Education, University of New Brunswick,, 1993 (magna cum laude)
M.A.,
Religious Studies, McGill University, 1990
B.Mus.,
Music History, McGill University, 1984. (Practical studies in Church
Organ)
Research Interests
Feminist and Queer Theologies; Women in Western Religions;
Theories of Sacred Music in Western Religions; Religion and Pop Music; New
Musicological Analysis of Biblical Texts Set to Music;
Research Projects
"Wiring the Shulamite for Ecological
Ends: Aesthetic Paradoxes in Barry
Truax's Song of Songs"
Monograph: The Polyphonic Shulamite: Modulating Subjectivity through Musical Settings of the Song of Songs
"Doric Boot-Straps: A Musical Semiotics
of Muscular Christianity"
"Foul Ooze: The Symbolic Interplay of
Music and Blood in Hildegard's Hymn to St. Ursula and the 10 000 Martyrs
Selected Publications and Presentations
"Penderecki's Iron Maiden: Intimacy
and Other Anomalies in the Canticum
canticorum salomonis," Bible Trouble: Queer Reading at the
Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship.
Semeia Studies Series, Society of Biblical Literature. Ken Stone and Teresa Hornsby, eds. In Press.
"Sour Grapes, Fermented Selves: Musical
Shulammites Modulate Subjectivity," The
Bible and Critical Theory,Volume
5/1 (2009): (electronic journal).
"Chastening Tale: Refiguring Woman
Across the Christian Fundamentalist-Feminist Divide," Fundamentalism and Women in World Religions, Arvind Sharma and
Katherine K. Young, eds. New York:
T. and T. Clark, 2007.
Melting
the Venusberg: A Feminist Theology of Music,
New York: Continuum Publishing Group, 2004.
"Re-Vamping the Cross: Galas's
Musical Mnemonic of Promiscuity," Theology
and Sexuality, Volume 15 (2001): 57-77.
Teaching Responsibilities
Religion,
Globalisation, and Social Justice
Gender
and God-Talk
Sex,
God, Rock n' Roll: Re-vamping the Sacred
History
of Christian Thought
Women
and Western Religious Traditions
Seminar on Religion and Embodiment
Administrative Responsibilities
Planning Committee for the U of S Interdisciplinary Centre
for Culture and Creativity
U of S Religious Studies Undergraduate and Graduate Committees
Member of the U of S College of Graduate Studies and
Research
it is a privilege to have done my first major mural in a university chapel for I consider it vital that the Christian message be at least available to young people at the turning point in their intellectual life which university represents.”
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it is a privilege to have done my first major mural in a university chapel for I consider it vital that the Christian message be at least available to young people at the turning point in their intellectual life which university represents.”
