Amanda Eubanks Winkler

Amanda Eubanks Winkler is a British-American scholar of English music and theater. She is Professor of Music History and Cultures and Chair of the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences. Since 2017, she has collaborated with the theater historian Richard Schoch on the AHRC Research Project Performing Restoration Shakespeare.[1]

Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Born
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
InstitutionsSyracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Education

Eubanks Winkler completed a B.M. in music history and literature and vocal performance, summa cum laude, at Illinois State University in 1994. She earned a M.A. in musicology from University of Michigan in 1996 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 2000.

Career

Eubanks Winkler joined the faculty of Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences in 2001. Her research focuses on English theater music and culture. She was the co-investigator on performing Restoration Shakespeare, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK (2017-2020) and she is a general editor for The Collected Works of John Eccles (A-R Editions). She has published on a range of topics, including books and essays on Restoration theater music, music and Shakespeare, children's performances in early modern England, performance practice and contemporary Broadway musicals. More recently, she has engaged with practice-based research, running workshops that staged excerpts of William Davenant's Macbeth and Charles Gildon's Measure for Measure (Folger Theatre, Washington DC) and Thomas Middleton's The Witch (Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, Virginia). As part of the Performing Restoration Shakespeare project, she was the music director for a workshop of the Restoration-era Tempest (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London) and co-led a workshop for scholars and was a consultant for a full professional production of Davenant's Macbeth at the Folger Theatre, Washington DC.[2]

Selected works

Books
  • Eubanks Winkler, Amanda (2006). O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34805-0.[3]
  • Austern, Linda Phyllis; Bailey, Candace; Eubanks Winkler, Amanda (2017). Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-02497-8.[4]
  • Eubanks Winkler, Amanda (2020). Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-85898-4.
  • Eubanks Winkler, Amanda; Schoch, Richard (2021). Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke's Company. Arden Shakespeare. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350130579.

References
  1. "Performing Restoration Shakespeare". Queen's University Belfast. September 17, 2019. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  2. "Performing Restoration Shakespeare (workshop)". Folgerpedia. Folger Shakespeare Library. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
    - "ENCORES: 'Davenant's Macbeth' produced by Folger Theatre and Folger Consort (2018)". Folger Shakespeare Library. October 16, 2020. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  3. Reviews of O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note:
    • McFadden, Megan (2009). "Review". Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. 13 (1): 101–106. doi:10.1353/wam.0.0025. ISSN 1553-0612. S2CID 191434138.
    • Willin, Melvyn J. (October 2009). "Review". The Seventeenth Century. Durham. 24 (2): 373–374.
    • Austern, Linda P. (2007). "Review". Renaissance Quarterly.
    • Williams, Sarah F. (2008). "Review". Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660–1700. 32 (1): 68–70. ISSN 0162-9905. JSTOR 43293809.
    • Pehl, Christa (Winter 2007). "Review". Early Music America. Cleveland, Ohio. 13 (4): 56–57.
  4. Review of Beyond Boundaries:
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