Department of Music : Faculty

Associated faculty of the Wake Forest University Divinity School and an ordained minister. At Wake Forest since 1982. BM/theory and composition, BME/vocal music (Baylor), PhD/musicology with an informal minor in music theory (North Carolina at Chapel Hill).  Director of the Women's Studies Program, Wake Forest (1997-2000); President of the University Senate, Wake Forest (1989-1990); Chair of the Department of Music, Wake Forest (1982-1994).  Assistant professor/theory and musicology, Eastman School of Music (1977-82).  Assistant professor/music history and theory (1972-77) and coordinator of the division of music history, literature, and church music (1976-77), Baylor School of Music.

Top 5% in teaching effectiveness at Baylor University. One of nine outstanding music graduates, Baylor School of Music 75th anniversary.  Composer-in-residence, Knollwood Baptist Church.  Composition residency, Wildacres Retreat, 2007.  Women-and-music residency, Baylor University, 1993.

Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Music, and the International Who's Who in Music.  Interviews on National Public Radio, Swedish National Radio (All-European coverage).  Guest lecturer in Europe, Asia, and North America on spirituality and the arts, twentieth-century music, women and music, women and violence, theory pedagogy. 

Published in Opera Quarterly, Music Library Association Notes, The Society for American Music Journal, Journal of Thought, Journal of Musicological Research, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, International Alliance of Women in Music Journal, Proceedings from Women in Higher Education: Traditions, Transitions and (a few) Revolutions, Southeast Women's Studies Bulletin, National Association of Schools of Music Newsletter.  Nationally published composer of solo vocal, choral, instrumental music by MorningStar Music Publishing, Treble Clef Music Press, Hope Publishing.  Original compositions featured nationwide, at The Riverside Church, NYC; venues from Washington state to the Midwest to the Eastern U.S.; national-level convocations, conferences, and seminars throughout the Southeast and Southwest; university concerts.  Pianist and accompanist featured in performances of original compositions and arrangements throughout the Eastern, Southern, and Southwestern U.S.  Musical collaborator with Dr. Maya Angelou.

National Women's Studies Association Program Administration and Development Council (2000-2004) and chair, the PA&D Leadership and Mentorship Committee (2000-2004); founder, the NWSA Contemporary Curriculum Transformation Project: Multiplicities of Identities.  Past president and honorary life member, the North Carolina Association of Music Schools. Former chair, Committee on the Status of Women, American Musicological Society; former officer, Southwest Chapter of the AMS; College Music Society (life member); Society for American Music; International Alliance of Women in Music; Music Library Association.  Reader for national presses, e.g. The University of Texas Press, the NWSA Journal.

Board member and officer, Baptist Women in Ministry, North Carolina. Former board member, Trinity Center: An Ecumenical Center for Counseling, Spiritual Formation, and Education; The North Carolina Alliance of Baptists; long range planning committee of the Piedmont Chamber Singers.