Professor Emma Dillon, Thurston Dart Professor of Music (Medieval Music and Cultures), King’s College London.
Emma Dillon is Professor of Medieval Music and Cultures at King’s College London. Her research focuses on European musical culture from the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. Her work ranges widely in terms of repertories, sources, and methodological approach, and broadly speaking falls at the intersection of musicology, sound studies, medieval studies, and the history of material texts.
She is the author of Medieval Music-Making and the Roman de Fauvel (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260–1330 (Oxford University Press in 2012), and numerous articles exploring the place of sound and music in medieval culture, including studies of the afterlives of medieval music. She is completing a book, Singing Knights: Living with Songs in the Age of French Romance, 1170–1220, exploring relationships between trouvère songs, medieval romance and documentary culture.
Dr Kate Franklin, Associate Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture, History of Art and Architecture, Tufts University.
Kate Franklin is Associate Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. An anthropological archaeologist and cultural historian of medieval Armenia and the Silk Road, Kate has researched landscape, architecture and material culture of the high middle ages in the Republic of Armenia for nearly two decades.
Her first monograph, Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia (UC Press 2021) examines the medieval worldmakings of the Silk Road from the doorway of a caravan inn in the Armenian highlands. Her second book co-authored with Michael Bintley, is Landscapes and Environments of the Middle Ages (Routledge 2023), an interdisciplinary examination of the idea of nature as constructed and enacted across the medieval world, and in modern memory of the middle ages. Kate is currently working on a number of projects, including archival work on Soviet heritage-making, epigraphic approaches to medieval political ecologies, and a literary and art-historical as well as archaeological exploration of the late medieval world of bishop Step’anos Orbelyan’s universal history of Syunik.
Professor Leah DeVun, History, Rutgers University.
Leah DeVun is Professor of History at Rutgers University in the United States. DeVun is the author of the prize-winning books The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance and Prophecy, Alchemy, and the End of Time. DeVun is also co-editor of “Trans*Historicities” a special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Her work focuses on the history of gender and sexuality, science and medicine, and the history of Christianity.