Teresa Berger

Professor Teresa Berger teaches in the fields of liturgical studies and Catholic theology; she holds doctorates in both. Her scholarly interests for many years lay at the intersection of these disciplines with gender theory. More recently, Professor Berger has turned her attention to questions of liturgy and creation, and to liturgical practices in digital worlds. She is currently at work on a monograph titled “Benedicite: Worship in the Sanctuary of the Cosmos.” Recent publications include an edited volume, Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation (2019), and a monograph titled @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (2018). Earlier publications include Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History (2011); Fragments of Real Presence (2005); and a video documentary, Worship in Women’s Hands (2007). Professor Berger has also written on the hymns of Charles Wesley and on the liturgical thought of the nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholic revival. She coedited, with Bryan Spinks, the volumes Liturgy’s Imagined Past/s (2016) and The Spirit in Worship–Worship in the Spirit (2009) and served as editor of Liturgy in Migration: From the Upper Room to Cyberspace (2012). Originally from Germany, Professor Berger has been a visiting professor at the universities of Mainz, Münster, Berlin, and Uppsala. In 2003, she received the distinguished Herbert Haag Prize for Freedom in the Church.