BIOGRAPHY:

After studying History and Art History for a B.A. at Carleton University in Ottawa, I went to Toronto for graduate work in medieval studies at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the Center for Medieval Studies. There I took courses with Jocelyn Hillgarth, Leonard Boyle, Brian Stock, Virginia Brown, Luba Eleen, Elizabeth Alfoldi, Jim Reilly, and all the first-year PIMS instructors. For my dissertation, I worked with Roger Reynolds on editing medieval liturgical texts. I have taught since at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and now at Fordham, where I have been teaching History and Medieval Studies since 1994. Most of my published research has been derived from a team project, the “Monumenta Liturgica Beneventana,” in which Virginia Brown, Roger Reynolds and I have been studying the liturgical manuscripts of the Beneventan region (southern Italy and Dalmatia).