Background
PhD, University of Chicago
Linda Austern is a specialist in Renaissance and baroque musical-cultural relations, gender and feminist theory, European iconography, music as related to visual art, and the early history of science. She is a recipient of major fellowships and research grants, including American Council of Learned Societies, British Academy, Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College/Harvard University), and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the author of Music in English Children's Drama of the Later Renaissance (Gordon and Breach, 1992) and Music in English Life and Thought 1550-1650 (forthcoming), and she served as editor for Music, Sensation and Sensuality (Routledge, 2002) and Music and the Sirens (Indiana University Press, 2006). She has authored numerous articles and reviews in books and such journals as Journal of the American Musicological Society, Modern Philology, Music and Letters, and Renaissance Quarterly.
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