Franciscan School of Theology
Associate Professor of Liturgy and Music
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1996

Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union
M.A. University of Notre Dame
M.A. LaSalle University
B.Mus. Manhattanville College

Phone: 510/848-5232
E-mail: mmcgann@fst.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Ritual Studies in Liturgical Scholarship
• Music in Ritual Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• Liturgy, Spirituality, and Culture
• Inculturation and Liturgy
• African American Sacred Music and Ritual
• Ethnography of Ritual Performance

Selected Publications

• A Precious Fountain: Music in the Worship of an African American Catholic Community (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2004).
• Exploring Music as Worship and Theology: Research in Liturgical Practice (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2002).
• "Timely Wisdom, Prophetic Challenge: Rediscovering Clarence R.J. Rivers' Vision of Effective Worship," Worship 76:1, January, 2002. 2-24.
• "The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship," co-authored with Eva Marie Lumas, U.S. Catholic Historian 2:10, Spring, 2001. 27-65.
• "Hymn and Anaphora in Early Christian Liturgy," Ecclesia Orans 17:3, 2000. 407-43.