Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Musicologist

Prof. Eubanks Winkler's research focuses on English theater music of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries. She was the Co-Investigator on Performing Restoration Shakespeare, a project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, 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 the relationships among musical, spiritual, and bodily disorder; musical depictions of the goddess Venus; the gendering of musical spirits; and the intersection of music and politics. More recent work has engaged with performance studies and practice-based research, including workshops that staged excerpts of Davenant's Macbeth and Gildon's Measure for Measure (Folger Theatre, Washington DC) and Middleton's The Witch (Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA). As part of the Performing Restoration Shakespeare project, she served as music director for a workshop of the Restoration-era Tempest (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London) and more recently co-led a workshop for scholars and served as a consultant for a full professional production of Davenant’s Macbeth, staged at the Folger Theatre, Washington DC. Her most recent sole-authored book, Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools, appeared with Cambridge University Press in 2020. Shakespeare in Performance: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company, co-authored with Richard Schoch, appeared with Arden Shakespeare/Bloomsbury in 2021. She has also published two editions of Restoration-era theatre music and two essay collections, the first with Linda Austern and Candace Bailey, Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England (Indiana UP, 2017) and the second with Claude Fretz and Richard Schoch, Performing Restoration Shakespeare (Cambridge UP, 2023). Her next project is a book that situates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musicals from the 70s and 80s within a social and political context.