Nicholas Denysenko is assistant professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, and an ordained deacon of the Orthodox Church in America. He earned his B.S. in business from the University of Minnesota (1994), an M.Div. from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary (2000) and a Ph.D. in liturgical studies from The Catholic University of America in 2008. He has lectured at George Washington University and The Catholic University of America. His research interests center on liturgical theology, particularly attending to festal celebrations in the Byzantine liturgical tradition, Mariology, mystagogy, and contemporary pastoral theology. In addition to several published articles, in 2007 he published "The Soteriology of the Feast of Mary's Birth" in Theological Studies, and recently published two articles on pastoral liturgy in Studia Liturgica and Bolletino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata. Articles on issues in the Roman and Byzantine liturgies are forthcoming.