Biography

Name, Title, & Role(s)
Full Name:
Susan Boynton
Position/Title:
Associate Professor
Position/Title:
(on leave, 2008-9)
Contact Information
Office Address:
TBA
Columbia e-mail:
slb184@columbia.edu

Susan Boynton joined the Columbia faculty in 2000, having taught previously at the University of Oregon. She has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy in Rome, and the Institute for Advanced Study. Her book, Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (2006), won the Lewis Lockwood Award of the American Musicological Society. Professor Boynton's research interests include liturgical music in medieval Western monasticism, particularly the abbeys of Cluny and Farfa; monastic education; and the role of women in medieval song. With Isabelle Cochelin, she is general editor of the interdisciplinary series Disciplina Monastica: Studies on Medieval Monastic Life/Etudes sur la vie monastique au moyen age (Brepols Publishers). She contributed to the website Celebrating the Liturgy's Books: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New York City. 
Degrees, Publications, and Recordings
Degrees:
BA Music (Yale 1988), MA Medieval Studies (Yale 1990)
Diplome d'etudes medievales (Universite Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1992)
MFA Music and Women's Studies (Brandeis, 1996), PhD, Musicology (Brandeis, 1997)
Selected Publications:
Young Choristers, 650-1700, edited with Eric Rice (Boydell and Brewer, 2008)

“Libelli Precum in the Central Middle Ages,” in A History of Prayer, ed. Roy Hammerling (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 255-318

“Prayer as Performance in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monastic Psalters,” Speculum 82 (2007): 895-931

“The Uses of the Liber Tramitis at the Abbey of Farfa,” in Studies in Medieval Chant and Liturgy in Honour of David Hiley, ed. Terence Bailey and László Dobszay (Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2007), 87-104

Musical Childhoods and the Cultures of Youth, edited with Roe-Min Kok (Wesleyan University Press, 2006)

Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006).

“The Theological Role of Office Hymns in a Ninth-Century Trinitarian Controversy,” in In principio erat verbum. Mélanges P. Tombeur, ed. Benoît-Michel Tock, Textes et Etudes du Moyen Âge 25 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), 19-44

“The Didactic Function and Context of Eleventh-Century Glossed Hymnaries,” in Der lateinische Hymnus im Mittelalter: Überlieferung-Ästhetik-Ausstrahlung, ed. Andreas Haug, Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi, Subsidia IV (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2004), 301-29

"Orality, Literacy, and the Early Notation of the Office Hymns," Journal of the American Musicological Society 56 (2003): 99-167

"A Lost Mozarabic Liturgical Manuscript Rediscovered: New York, Hispanic Society of America, B2916, olim Toledo, Biblioteca Capitular, 33.2," Traditio 57 (2002) 189-219

"Work and Play in Sacred Music and its Social Context, ca. 1050-1250," in The Use and Abuse of Time in Christian History, ed. R.N. Swanson, Studies in Church History 37 (Woodbridge: Blackwell, 2002), 57-79

"Glosses on the Office Hymns in Eleventh-Century Continental Hymnaries," The Journal of Medieval Latin 11 (2001): 1-26

"Women's Performance of the Lyric before 1500," in Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, ed. Ann Marie Rasmussen and Anne Klinck (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), 47-65

"Training for the Liturgy as a Form of Monastic Education," in Medieval Monastic Education, ed. Carolyn Muessig and George Ferzoco (Leicester, London, New York: Leicester University Press, 2000), 7-20

"Ricerche sul breviario di Santa Giulia (Brescia, Biblioteca Queriniana, ms H VI 21" (coauthored with Martina Pantarotto), Studi medievali 42 (2001): 301-318

"Liturgy and History at the Abbey of Farfa in the Late Eleventh Century: Hymns of Peter Damian and Other Additions to BAV Chigi C.VI.177," Sacris Erudiri 39 (2000): 253-280

"Eleventh-Century Continental Hymnaries Containing Latin Glosses," Scriptorium 53 (1999): 200-251

"The Sources and Significance of the Orpheus Myth in 'Musica Enchiriadis' and Regino of Prüm's 'Epistola de harmonica institutione'," Early Music History 18 (1999): 47-74

"Performative Exegesis in the Fleury Interfectio Puerorum," Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 29 (1998): 39-64

"The Liturgical Role of Children in Monastic Customaries from the Central Middle Ages," Studia Liturgica 28 (1998): 194-209
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