Boynton, Susan

About Me
Position/Title:
Associate Professor

Susan Boynton joined the Columbia faculty in 2000, having taught at the University of Oregon. She has received several grants, including two Fulbrights, a Rome Prize, and a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (as co-investigator with Isabelle Cochelin, University of Toronto). In 2003 she was a recipient of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Award from the School of General Studies as well as the Hettleman Summer Faculty Development Fellowship. Her 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, Belgium). Prof. Boynton co-chairs the Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She is also co-author of the website Celebrating the Liturgy's Books: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New York City