James Blasina is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Swarthmore College. His research focuses on chant and liturgy for the cults of saints in the European Middle Ages. His current book project, St Katherine of Alexandria in Music and Liturgy: The Rise of a Cult Across Medieval Europe investigates early repertories of chant for St. Katherine in Normandy and England, and their impact on establishing the later transcontinental cult. During his short-term ISM fellowship, James will be consulting medieval liturgical manuscripts in the Beinecke Library, and MS 842, a sixteenth century versified narrative of the story of St Katherine intended for an audience of Dominican nuns, in considering the relationship between the earliest liturgical traditions of St Katherine and later recastings.
