
Amanda Eubanks Winkler is an Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Art & Music Histories at Syracuse University, specializing in English theatre music of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-centuries. Professor Winkler's articles and reviews have appeared in Cambridge Opera Journal, The Journal of Musicology, Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Notes, 17th-Century Music Newsletter, and the NABMSA Newsletter. Her critical edition Music for Macbeth was published by A-R Editions (2004) and she is currently one of the General Editors, with Kathyrn Lowerre and Michael Burden, of the Collected Works of John Eccles, a multi-volume set also to be published by A-R Editions. She has been an invited lecturer at Northwestern University, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Peabody Conservatory of Music, the University of Maryland, the University of Manchester, Princeton University, and Cornell University and has presented papers at numerous conferences, both in the United States and Great Britain. She has forthcoming essays in Stages "Adorn'd with Ev'ry Grace": Music, Dance, and Drama in London at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Kathryn Lowerre (Ashgate), Approaches to Teaching the Works of John Dryden(co-authored with Lowerre), ed. Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine (MLA), and Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell(Ashgate). She also has a forthcoming article in Musical Quarterly, “Sexless Spirits?: Gender Ideology and Dryden’s Musical Magic.” In 2001 Professor Winkler was awarded a long-term fellowship, funded by the NEH, to pursue research at the Folger Shakespeare Library. The resulting book, O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, Melancholics and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage, published by Indiana University Press in 2006, was a finalist for the American Musicological Society's Lewis Lockwood Award.
Curriculum vitae
Courses:
Bach and Handel
Britten and His World
European Music to 1750
History of Musical Theater
Music and Gender
Music, Magic, and Ritual
Music and Politics
Music Research and Writing
Music and the Sacred
Music and Shakespeare
Opera in Society