Vaughn Jerome Fayle

Vaughn Jerome Fayle was born and educated in South Africa and pursued graduate studies in Europe. He holds degrees in music, theology and philosophy with a doctorate on 20th century French philosophy. As a musician and composer his works have been performed in several countries. He previously taught at Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio; Catholic Theological Union in Chicago; and has been a guest professor in South Africa, Malawi, Zambia and Rome.

He is the author of Geographies Forgotten and Embraced (2025) and Silence les sirene! (2026), an introduction in French to the poetry of South African poet Dennis Brutus. In 2007, he received the Shannon Fellowship for his study of Thomas Merton's poetry set to music from the international Thomas Merton Society. A Franciscan friar, he began teaching  at Iona University in 2023 in the arts and humanities, where he is the Cox-Colbert Teaching Scholar in Residence.