Faculty Profiles

The Institute is shaped by its faculty. Members of the faculty hold joint appointments in the Institute and one of the professional schools, either Music or Divinity. All offer courses that enhance the curricula of their respective schools and reflect the mission of the Institute. As the following profiles indicate, the faculty bring a variety of gifts and expertise, representing the finest in their disciplines.

Teresa Berger, Professor of Liturgical Studies. Professor Berger holds doctorates in both dogmatic theology and liturgical studies. She grew up in post-World War II Germany and studied at St. John’s College, Nottingham, and the Universities of Mainz, Heidelberg, Münster, and Geneva. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of liturgical studies, gender theory, theology, and cultural studies. Professor Berger has written extensively on liturgy and women’s lives. Her recent publications include Women’s Ways of Worship: Gender Analysis and Liturgical History (1999), Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context (2001), and Fragments of Real Presence (2005). The latter received two Catholic Press Awards in 2006. She has also published monographs on the hymns of Charles Wesley, on the nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholic revival, and on ecumenical readings of the Scriptures. In the spring of 2006 she co-edited an issue of the subaltern Web dossier Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise, entitled The Poetics of the Sacred and the Politics of Scholarship. Professor Berger is passionate about teaching, including its crosscultural dimensions; she has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Mainz, Müenster, Berlin, and Uppsala. In 2003 she received the distinguished Herbert Haag Prize for Freedom in the Church. Professor Berger’s scholarly work currently focuses on an editorial project designed to bring to light the many ways in which gender has shaped what comes to be known as “liturgical tradition.” She is also completing a collection of prayers, meditations, stories, and songs entitled Ocean Psalms, and has just co-produced, with FireStream Media, a documentary video, “Worship in Women’s Hands.” L.Th., St. John’s College, Nottingham; M.Th., Dipl.Theol., Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz; Dr.Theol., Ruprecht Karl-Universität, Heidelberg; Dr.Theol., Habilitation, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster.

Jeffrey Brillhart, Lecturer in Organ Improvisation. Mr. Brillhart has performed throughout the United States, South America, South Africa, and Europe as conductor and organist and is known for his extraordinary musical versatility. He was awarded first place at the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation in 1994. Mr. Brillhart is director of music and fine arts at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, where he oversees music, education, and arts programs that involve more than 500 children, youth, and adults each week. He is also music director of Philadelphia’s acclaimed Singing City Choir, one of the first integrated community choirs in the United States. At Singing City he follows a distinguished line of conductors that includes Elaine Brown and Joseph Flummerfelt. Under his direction, his choral ensembles have performed with the Kronos Quartet, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Bobbie McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Helmuth Rilling, Rossen Milanov, and on tours to Cuba, Northern Ireland, and, in the 2008 season, Brazil. Mr. Brillhart maintains an active schedule as conductor, organist, and clinician, most recently at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, Westminster Choir College, Furman University, Walla Walla College, and Baylor University. M.M., Eastman School of Music.

Marguerite L. Brooks, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Choral Conducting. Professor Brooks was named to the faculty in 1985 to chair Yale’s graduate program in choral conducting and to direct the Institute’s choral activities. She conducts the Yale Camerata and chamber choir and instructs all choral conducting students from both the Institute and the School of Music. She serves as director of music at the Church of the Redeemer (UCC) in New Haven. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Amherst College, and was director of choral music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. B.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.M., Temple University.

Simon Carrington, Professor in the Practice of Choral Conducting. From 2001 until his Yale appointment in 2003, Profesor Carrington was director of choral activities at the New England Conservatory, and from 1994 to 2001 he held a similar position at the University of Kansas. Prior to coming to the United States, Professor Carrington was a creative force for twenty-five years with the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble the King’s Singers, which he co-founded at Cambridge University. He gave 3,000 performances at many of the world’s most prestigious festivals and concert halls, made more than seventy recordings, and appeared on countless television and radio programs including nine appearances with the late Johnny Carson. He maintains an active schedule as a freelance conductor and choral clinician, leading workshops and master classes all over the world. Most recently he has conducted combined choirs in the Monteverdi Vespers in Barcelona; the Fauré Requiem in Orchestra Hall, Chicago, and Dornoch Cathedral, Scotland; the Texas All State Choir; the Rachmaninov Vespers in Victoria, British Columbia, with singers from all over Canada; and the Monteverdi Choir Festival in Budapest. He has also led workshops at the Chamber Choir Festival in Sarteano (Italy), and the Yale summer festival at Norfolk. In the 2006–2007 season he took Yale Schola Cantorum to perform at two major conferences in the United States, gave the keynote address at the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors conference, conducted at the 11th Tokyo Cantat in Japan, presided over the international jury at the choral festival in Leipzig, Germany, and guest conducted the Camerata Vocale in Utrecht, Holland. M.A., Cambridge University.

John W. Cook, Professor Emeritus and Lecturer in Religion and the Arts. Professor Cook served as director of the Institute from 1984 to 1992. His publications have centered on the Christian tradition in its artistic history and development from the catacombs in the second century to the most modern expression of the faith in the contemporary world. He did part of his graduate study at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn. He has also served the church as a minister in Texas and Connecticut. In 1992 Professor Cook was appointed president of the Henry Luce Foundation in New York City, from which he retired in January 2003. At present he is working on a documentary to be produced and broadcast by PBS on the aesthetic creations of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He has an honorary doctorate from Valparaiso University and serves on the boards of Union Theological Seminary; MOBIA, the Museum of Biblical Art; the Southwestern University Board of Advisors; the St. Paul’s Cathedral of London in America Board; the Yale Divinity School Board of Advisors; and the board of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library of Minnesota. B.A., Baylor University; M.Div., Ph.D., Yale University.

Beverly Coyle, Visiting Professor Emerita and Lecturer in Religion and Literature. Professor Coyle’s books on the poet Wallace Stevens preceded her turning to fiction writing and the publication of a collection of short stories and two novels (all published by Ticknor and Fields and Penguin): The Kneeling, Bus Taken In, and In Troubled Waters. In Troubled Waters was a New York Times “Notable Book” in 1993 and was named a “Ten Best Novels” selection by the American Library Association in 1994. Professor Coyle is professor emeritus at Vassar College, where she was also the Mary Augusta Scott Professor of Literature before early retirement in 2000. Her first play, Parallel Lives, co-authored with journalist Bill Maxwell, is an autobiographical story about growing up in the last days of Jim Crow segregation, and premiered at American Stage Theater in 2003. Her second play, A man and a woman and a blackbird, is in development. She makes her home in New York City and currently serves on the board of directors for the organization Cross Currents, which publishes the critically acclaimed quarterly of the same name. B.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., University of Nebraska.

Patrick Evans, Associate Professor in the Practice of Sacred Music. Professor Evans came to Yale from the University of Delaware, where he was associate professor of music. As a singer, he has been a Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, the Cleveland Art Song Festival, and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. He appears regularly in opera, oratorio, and recital performances, and has sung All the Way Through Evening: Songs from the AIDS Quilt Songbook, a recital/liturgical event, throughout the United States. During a recent sabbatical year, he served as artist in residence at Union Theological Seminary, and he currently serves in the same capacity at Broadway Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. Minister of music for ten years at Hanover Street Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware, Professor Evans has worked with many urban congregations seeking to renew their musical worship traditions, embracing the changing cultural contexts of their cities. He is interested in the interaction of the traditional Western canon with global hymnody, African American gospel traditions, and other musical and liturgical artistry in multicultural communities of faith. B.M., B.M.E., University of Montevallo; M.M., D.M., Florida State University.

Margot E. Fassler, Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History. Professor Fassler is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her special fields of study are medieval and American sacred music, and the liturgy of the Latin Middle Ages; 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 Psalms in Community (edited with Harold Attridge) 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. B.A., State University of New York; M.A., Syracuse University; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University.

Siobhán Garrigan, Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies and Assistant Dean for Marquand Chapel. Professor Garrigan is author of Beyond Ritual: Sacramental Theology after Habermas (2004) and a former Government of Ireland humanities scholar. Before coming to Yale, she taught Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change at the Open University and, for the previous three years, courses in Christian theology and worship as part of the religious studies faculty at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology. Prior to teaching, she worked extensively with homeless people. Her ecumenical work led to her co-coordination of the first Irish interchurch conference, “Fís,” and to several articles in Irish journals. B.A., Oxford University; S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Milltown Institute, Dublin.

Martin D. Jean, Professor of Organ, Professor in the Practice of Sacred Music, and Director of the Institute of Sacred Music. Professor Jean has performed widely throughout the United States and Europe and is known for his broad repertorial interests. He was awarded first place at the international Grand Prix de Chartres in 1986, and in 1992 at the National Young Artists’ Competition in Organ Performance. A student of Robert Glasgow, in the fall of 1999 he spent a sabbatical with Harald Vogel in North Germany. He has performed on four continents and in nearly all fifty states. In 2001 he presented a cycle of the complete organ works of Bach at Yale, and his compact discs of The Seven Last Words of Christ by Charles Tournemire and the complete Six Symphonies of Louis Vierne, both recorded in Woolsey Hall, have been released by Loft Recordings. Recordings of the organ symphonies and Stations of the Cross of Marcel Dupré are forthcoming on the Delos label. A.Mus.D., University of Michigan.

Jaime Lara, Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture and Chair of the Program in Religion and the Arts. Professor Lara has degrees and interest in art, architecture, liturgics, and anthropology. His studies have focused on early Christianity, the Spanish Middle Ages, medieval theater, and the colonial era of Latin America. His most recent publications include Christian Texts for Aztecs: Liturgy and Art in Colonial Mexico; City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain; “A Vulcanological Joachim of Fiore and an Aerodynamic Francis of Assisi in Colonial Latin America,” in Studies in Church History, vol. 41; “Catholic Worship in Hispanic America,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Christian Worship; “The Language of the Arts,” in The Languages of Worship/Los Lenguages de la Liturgia; and “Feathered Psalms: Old World Forms in a New World Garb,” in The Psalms in Community. He has another book in preparation on volcanoes, myths, and the Book of Revelation in the Andean countries. B.A., Cathedral College; M.Div., Immaculate Conception Seminary; M.A., City University of New York; S.T.M., Yale University; Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union and University of California, Berkeley.

Traugott Lawler, Professor Emeritus and Lecturer in Religion and Literature. Professor Lawler is professor emeritus of English at Yale; he taught a course on Dante’s Divine Comedy at the Institute in spring of 2007. He has been writing in recent years mostly on William Langland and has offered a graduate seminar on Langland six times since 1987. With four other scholars, he is working on a commentary on the poem in all its versions, and he is the author recently of “Langland’s Pardon-Formula: Its Ubiquity, Its Binary Shape, Its Silent Middle Term,” in Yearbook of Language Studies 14, and “Langland and the Secular Clergy,” in YLS 16. He is also the author of The One and the Many in the Canterbury Tales (1980) and co-editor of “Boece” for the Riverside Chaucer. He has regularly offered informal tutorials in Latin for graduate students preparing to meet the department’s Latin requirement. In 1983 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. From 1986 to 1995 and again in 2002 to 2003, he served as Master of Ezra Stiles College. He retired in June 2005 and is preparing, with other scholars, a commentary on the known versions of Piers Plowman, while continuing his research and remaining available to students. His other interests include Chaucer, Dante, medieval Latin, Old English, the history of the English language, and paleography. B.A., College of the Holy Cross; M.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Judith Malafronte, Lecturer in Voice. The mezzo-soprano Judith Malafronte has an active career as a soloist in opera, oratorio, and recital. She has appeared with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the St. Louis Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society, and Mark Morris Dance Group. She has sung at the Tanglewood Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, and the Göttingen Handel Festival. Winner of several top awards in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and the United States, including the Grand Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Hertogenbosch, Holland, Ms. Malafronte holds degrees with honors from Vassar College and Stanford University. She studied at the Eastman School of Music, in Paris and Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger, and with Giulietta Simionato in Milan as a Fulbright scholar. She has recorded for major labels in a broad range of repertoire, from medieval chant to contemporary music, and her writings have appeared in Opera News, Stagebill, Islands, Early Music America Magazine, Schwann Inside, and Opus. B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Stanford University.

Mark Miller, Lecturer in the Practice of Sacred Music. Mr. Miller has served on the faculty at the Drew Theological School in Madison, New Jersey, since 1994. He is director of the Gospel and Youth Choirs at the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, and from 1999 to 2001 was music associate and assistant organist of the Riverside Church. Mr. Miller is known in churches throughout the country as a worship leader, teacher, composer, and performer of sacred music and has performed concerts from California to Connecticut. He has a passion for composing music that reflects elements of classical, gospel, jazz, and folk and has over twenty works published with Abingdon Press and Hope Publishing. As an undergraduate he was the recipient of the Yale Bach Society Prize and in 1989 was first prizewinner of the National Association of Negro Musicians National Organ Competition. B.A., Yale University; M.M., Juilliard.

Thomas Murray, Professor in the Practice of Organ and Chair of the Program in Organ. Professor Murray has been a member of the Yale faculty since 1981 and was appointed University organist in 1990. Successor to Charles Krigbaum and Robert Baker as the senior professor of organ, he teaches the Organ Literature Seminar and gives instruction to graduate organ majors. His performing career has taken him to all parts of Europe and to Japan, Australia, and Argentina. He has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh, Houston, Milwaukee, and New Haven symphony orchestras, the National Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra during its tour of Finland in 1996. The American Guild of Organists named him International Performer of the Year in 1986; as a recipient of this distinction he joined such luminaries as Marie-Claire Alain, Jean Guillou, and Dame Gillian Weir. The Royal College of Organists in England awarded him an FRCO diploma honoris causa in 2003. During his years at Yale he has at times been active as a choral conductor, and prior to joining the faculty he was organist and choirmaster at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Episcopal) in Boston. In 2006 he was appointed artist-in-residence at Christ Church Episcopal in New Haven. B.A., Occidental College.

Ivica Novakovic, Visiting Lecturer in Religion and Culture. Professor Novakovic studied physics, sociology, philosophy, and theology in Croatia, Switzerland, and the United States. His work is informed by these cultural contexts, and he addresses transcultural and interdisciplinary questions, particularly those of theological rationality (Theology: Speculative or Combinatorial? [2004]) and religious imagination (“Work on Symbols”). He has lectured in the areas of philosophical theology, systematic theology, contemporary theology, and the theology of culture (“Doing Theology in the Media Age”). More recently he has focused his research on the problem of conceiving God’s presence and the modes of its representation and communication in music, images, and words. He is particularly interested in exploring how the sense of God’s presence can be presented in the contemporary world, where many religions and cultures meet in the context of conflict, and how it can provide a resource for reconciliation and broadening the vision of human flourishing. B.A., University of Zagreb; B.D., Baptist Theological Seminary, Zurich; Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary.

Sally M. Promey, Professor of Religion and Visual Culture, Professor of American Studies, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Sacred Music. Professor Promey comes to Yale from the University of Maryland, where she was professor and chair in the department of art history and archaeology. Her scholarship explores relations among visual culture and religions in the United States from the colonial period through the present. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a book titled Religion in Plain View, a history of the public display of religion in the United States. Her monograph Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent’s “Triumph of Religion” at the Boston Public Library (Princeton, 1999) received the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion. An earlier book, Spiritual Spectacles: Vision and Image in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Shakerism (Indiana, 1993), was awarded the Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art. Among recent articles and book chapters are essays titled “Seeing the Self ‘in Frame’: Early New England Material Practice and Puritan Piety”; “Taste Cultures and the Visual Practice of Liberal Protestantism, 1940–1965”; “Situating Visual Culture”; and “The ‘Return’ of Religion in the Scholarship of American Art.” Professor Promey is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including two Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowships (2003 and 1993) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, a residential fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2000), and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1997). In 2001 she was recipient of the Regents’ Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity from the Board of Regents for the University System of Maryland; in 2002 she received the Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize of the University of Maryland. She was co-director (with David Morgan, Valparaiso University) of a multiyear interdisciplinary collaborative project, “The Visual Culture of American Religions,” funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Lilly Endowment, Inc. A book of the same title, co-edited by Promey and Morgan, appeared in 2001 from University of California Press. In 2004 she was senior historian in residence for the Terra Summer Residency Program in Giverny, France. She serves on the editorial boards of American Art, Winterthur Portfolio, and Material Religion. B.A., Hiram College; M.Div., Yale University; Ph.D., University of Chicago.

Markus Rathey, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music History. Professor Rathey studied musicology, Protestant theology, and German philology in Bethel and Münster. He taught at the University of Mainz and the University of Leipzig and was a research fellow at the Bach-Archiv, Leipzig, before joining the Yale faculty in 2003. His primary research interests are music of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the relationship among music, religion, and politics during the Enlightenment. Recent publications include the books Johann Rudolph Ahle (1625–1673): Lebensweg und Schaffen (Eisenach, 1999), an edition of Johann Georg Ahle’s Music Theoretical Writings (Hildesheim, 2007), and Kommunikation und Diskurs: Die Bürgerkapitänsmusiken Carl Philipp Emanuel Bachs (Hildesheim, 2007). He was guest editor of a volume of the German journal Musik und Kirche (2005) on church music in the United States. Professor Rathey is vice president of the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship. Ph.D., Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.

Bryan D. Spinks, Professor of Liturgical Studies, Chair of the Program in Liturgical Studies, and Fellow of Morse College. Professor Spinks works on Syriac traditions of liturgy, placing his scholarship in the context of patristics and the early sources of Christian liturgy. A priest in the Anglican tradition, he also works on a range of Reformation topics, with publications on Luther, Calvin, Richard Hooker, and William Perkins. His most recent publications are two volumes on rituals and theologies of baptism. He is currently completing a book on worship in the Age of Reason in England and Scotland. Before coming to Yale, he taught religious education at St. Peter’s Comprehensive School in Huntingdon, and liturgy at the University of Cambridge, where he was also chaplain of Churchill College. He served on the Church of England Liturgical Commission from 1986 to 2000 and was involved in the compilation of Common Worship 2000. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of Churchill College, Cambridge. B.A., St. Chad’s College, University of Durham; Dipl.Theol., University of Durham; Cert.Ed., University of Cambridge; M.Th., King’s College, University of London; B.D., D.D., University of Durham.

James Taylor, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Voice. The American lyric tenor James Taylor joined the Yale faculty in 2005 after serving as professor of voice at the Musikhochschule in Augsburg, Germany, since 2001. He is one of the most sought-after oratorio singers of his generation, appearing worldwide with such renowned conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Herbert Blomstedt, Daniel Harding, Bernard Labadie, Harry Christophers, Osmo Vänskä, Phillipe Herreweghe, René Jacob, Ivan Fisher, Ton Koopman, Michel Corboz, and Franz Welser-Möst, and touring extensively with Helmuth Rilling. Important guest appearances have included concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, the Toronto Symphony, Tafelmusik, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Los Angeles Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and the San Francisco Symphony. His more than thirty-five professional recordings on CD include Dvorák’s Stabat Mater, Mendelssohn’s Paulus and Elijah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Händel’s Messiah, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Christmas Oratorio, and the songs of John Duke. A recording of Scottish and Welsh songs by Franz Josef Haydn, with Donald Sulzen and the Munich Piano Trio, has recently been released. Professor Taylor is one of the founders of Liedertafel, a male vocal quartet, which has appeared in major European music festivals and recorded for the Orfeo label. Important future engagements include performances of Mozart’s Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg, four performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Kurt Masur in March 2008, and a tour of the Britten Horn Serenade with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in April 2008. B.Mus., Texas Christian University; M.Dipl., Hochschule für Musik, Munich.

Ted Taylor, Lecturer in Voice. Mr. Taylor is equally at home on stage accompanying some of the world’s preeminent vocalists and in the pit conducting a varied repertoire of fifty operas and musicals. He enjoys a wide-ranging international career, having recently toured Japan with Kathleen Battle, and making his debut at the New York City Opera leading La Traviata. He has appeared in recital with Sylvia McNair, Ben Heppner, and Christine Schaefer, among many others. Formerly music director for the New York City Opera National Company and the Mobile (Alabama) Opera, he has appeared with many American opera companies, including those of Atlanta, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Wolf Trap, and Central City, and has served on the conducting staffs of the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Mr. Taylor served as assistant to Academy Award winner Tan Dun for the premiere of Marco Polo at the Munich Biennale and then prepared the work with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic orchestras. Now in his third year at Yale, as well as his ninth year on the faculty of the Opera Program at Mannes College for Music (The New School) in New York City, Mr. Taylor makes his home in Manhattan, where he maintains an active studio as coach and teacher. B.M., George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University; M.M., Indiana University.

Thomas H. Troeger, J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor of Christian Communication. Professor Troeger has written more than fifteen books in the fields of preaching, poetry, hymnody, and worship and is a frequent contributor to journals dedicated to these topics. His most recent books include Preaching and Worship, Preaching While the Church Is Under Reconstruction, and Above the Moon Earth Rises: Hymn Texts, Anthems and Poems for a New Creation. He is also a flutist and a poet whose work appears in the hymnals of most denominations and is frequently set as choral anthems. For three years Professor Troeger hosted the “Season of Worship” broadcast for Cokesbury, and he has led conferences and lectureships in worship and preaching throughout North America, as well as in Denmark, Holland, Australia, Japan, and Africa. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1970 and in the Episcopal Church in 1999, he is dually aligned with both traditions. He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and currently serves on the board of Societas Homiletica (the international guild of scholars in homiletics). B.A., Yale University; B.D., Colgate Rochester Divinity School; S.T.D., Dickinson College; D.D., Virginia Theological Seminary.

Mark Villano, Visiting Lecturer in Religion and the Arts. Ordained as a Paulist priest in the Roman Catholic tradition, Rev. Villano has ministered in pastoral assignments across the United States. In Austin, Texas, he served at an urban parish and with students from the University of Texas. In Los Angeles, he worked at parishes and the campus ministry centers at U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. For four years he was associate director of campus ministry at the Newman Center at Ohio State University in Columbus. Most recently he served as associate chaplain at St. Thomas More Catholic Center at Yale. While in Los Angeles, he was director of creative development at Paulist Productions, a film and television production company, working with writers and producers on various media projects. He was also documentary director for the Humanitas Prize, an annual series of awards given to television and film writers who show “humanizing achievement in writing.” At Ohio State, he taught screenwriting as an adjunct in the department of theatre. At Yale, he has taught as a visiting lecturer in religion and the arts and has been a frequent guest lecturer in ISM courses. He maintains a strong interest in media and film studies and in filmmaking as a contemporary way of expressing faith experience. Currently, he is the director of campus ministry at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. B.A, M.Div., Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.; M.F.A., University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Affiliated Faculty

Robert Mealy, the baroque violinist, works with Yale instrumentalists and provides support for Yale Schola Cantorum and Institute voice students.

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