Early Modern Songscapes

Early Modern Songscapes is an intermedia project that aims more fully to animate song's least tangible, yet essential facets: its generic fluidity; its ability to register multiple meanings and permeate boundaries in unexpected ways; and its rootedness in the air. In this seminar, Professor Larson will frame the presentation of the website in relation to her recently published book The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air (Oxford University Press, 2019), which also includes and open access comparison recording. For more information on the Early Modern Songscapes project please visit songscapes.org

Katherine Larson is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto and Vice-Dean Teaching, Learning and Undergraduate Programs at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Her research and teaching centre on early modern English literature and culture, with particular interests in early modern women's writing; gender and language; rhetoric and embodiment; and music and literature. She is the author and co-editor of several books, including Early Modern Women in Conversation (Palgrave, 2011) and most recently The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air (Oxford 2019), and has received many honours, fellowships, research grants, and awards, including election to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. 

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