PIMSPontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies

Claire Jones (Mellon Fellow) is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Notre Dame. She earned her doctorate in 2012 from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation entitled “Communal Song and the Theology of Voice in Medieval German Mysticism.” Her essay “Christian Listening and the Ethical Community of Liturgical Text” was published in Literature and Theology in 2013. While at the Institute, she will complete her book manuscript tentatively entitled The Ecstasy of the Psalms: Mysticism, Song, and Body in Medieval Monasticism.