being both a trained soprano and a literary scholar means Larson has learned to read and interpret early modern music not only as a singer expressing herself in the semi-improvisatory context of performance, but also as an academic trained to be analytical about both music and lyrics on the printed page. This combination of skills and experience has encouraged her to develop a scholarly style that acknowledges 'the matter of song' as an evanescent yet powerfully affective force that can nevertheless be subject to interpretative analysis.
Katherine R. Larson is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Early Modern Women in Conversation (Palgrave, 2011) and co-editor of Gender and Song in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2014), and Re-Reading Mary Wroth (Palgrave, 2015). A former Rhodes Scholar and the winner of the 2008 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature, Professor Larson is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists.