I am very happy to share with our readers that Dr. Maeve Heaney is joining Rock and Theology. I am confident that we are going to enjoy and learn from her expertise, as she brings aesthetics and fundamental theological questions together in a unique analysis that is important for almost all work at the intersection of theology and music.

Maeve Louise Heaney is from Dublin, Ireland, and is currently teaching and researching as the Bannan Fellow at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, in California. As a musician and composer, she develops her ministry and theological work together in the areas of both evangelization and liturgy, working with musicians and composers in placing music at the service of faith transmission.

She has produced three CDs of her own music: I Believe in You, Stand, and Nel Frattempo. She is a consecrated missionary of a young Catholic community called the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity, and as such has lived and worked in Spain, England, Ireland and Italy, working in campus ministry at various institutions of higher education and in the area of evangelization: retreats, spiritual exercises and schools of evangelization.

Maeve completed her doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, in the field of Fundamental Theology and Theological Aesthetics, where she taught for two years. Her book: Music as Theology: What Music has to say about the Word will be published soon.

We look forward to that publication, and also to the ideas and insights Prof. Heaney will contribute here at Rock and Theology. Maeve Heaney, welcome!