Maggi E. Dawn
Associate Dean for Marquand Chapel and Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Theology and Literature
Originally from England, Professor Dawn came to Yale in 2011 after teaching and serving as chaplain at the University of Cambridge for a number of years. She teaches performative theology, theology and literature, and liturgical studies. She is the author of four books: The Accidental Pilgrim: Modern Journeys on Ancient Pathways (Hodder and Stoughton, 2011), The Writing on the Wall: High Art, Popular Culture and the Bible (Hodder and Stoughton, 2010), Giving it Up: Daily Bible Readings from ashwednesday to EAster Day (Oxford: BRF, 2009), and Beginnings and Endings (and What Happens in Between): Daily Bible Readings from Advent to Epiphany (Oxford: BRF, 2007). In addition to publishing articles and essays in journals and periodicals, she has contributed chapters to four collections of essays: An Acceptable Sacrifice?: Homosexuality and the Church (ed. Dormor and Morris, SPCK 2007), Anglicanism: The Answer to Modernity (ed Dormor, McDonald, and Caddick, Continuum, 2003), The Rite Stuff: Ritual in Contemporary Christian Worship and Mission (ed. P. Ward, BRF, 2004), and Post-Evangelical Debate (Dawn et al., SPCK 1997). She is the composer of contemporary songs and hymns, published variously by EMI (Kingsway) and Big Jungle Music. Professor Dawn is an ordained priest in the Church of England, an accredited pastoral supervisor with APSE (Association of Pastoral Supervisors & Educators), a writer member of PRS for Music, and a member of the Society for the Study of Theology (UK). She serves on the advisory board for the Royal School of Church Music and is a senior member of King's College and Robinson College in the University of Cambridge, where she was formerly chaplain and fellow. B.A., M.A., PH.D., University of Cambridge, England.
Updated: July 2012