Susan Forscher Weiss, Ph.D.

Susan Forscher Weiss is the past chair of musicology at the Peabody Institute and holds a joint appointment in the Department of German and Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Weiss’s interests range from medieval and Renaissance music, music theory and musical instruments to music cognition and musical theatre. She has published widely with monographs, edited books, articles and reviews in a number of national and international journals. Awards include several from the National Endowment for the Humanities (including the most recent: NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, Level II (2013-14). Dr. Weiss was the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, 2014.