Bojan Bujić (bojan.bujic@magd.ox.ac.uk) is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He taught at the universities of Reading (1969–78) and Oxford (1978–2005) and has published extensively in the fields of Italian sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century music, aesthetics of music and Austro-German modernism. Among his publications are Music in European Thought 1851–1912 (CUP, 1988) and Arnold Schoenberg (Phaidon, 2011).

Katherine Butler (katherine.butler@queens.oxon.org) is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford working on the AHRC-funded Tudor Partbooks project. Previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, her research explores the musical culture of early modern England, from the myths and stories that shaped perceptions of music to its practical roles in sixteenth-century politics and society. She is author of Music in Elizabethan Court Politics (Boydell & Brewer, 2015), and has published articles in Early Music, Renaissance Quarterly and Journal of the History of Ideas. Further information about her research activities can be found on her blog: Early Modern English Music, <http://katherineabutler.wordpress.com>.

Michel Duchesneau (michel.duchesneau@umontreal.ca) is Professor at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal. His research on French music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on contemporary music has led to the publication of numerous articles, as well as various books on French music: L'avant-garde musicale et ses sociétés à Paris de 1870 à 1939 (Mardaga, 1997), Musique et modernité en France (PUM, 2006), Musique, art et religion dans l'entre-deux-guerres (Symétrie, 2009), Charles Koechlin, compositeur et humaniste (Vrin, 2010) and Écrits de compositeurs: Une autorité en questions (Vrin, 2013).

Elizabeth Eva Leach (elizabetheva.leach@music.ox.ac.uk) is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. Her second monograph, Guillaume de Machaut: Secretary, Poet, Musician (Cornell University Press, 2011), was awarded the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize by the Renaissance Society of America. Leach is a director of DIAMM (<http://www.diamm.ac.uk>) and maintains a regular research blog; blogposts and free online downloads of many of her paper publications can be found online via <http://eeleach.wordpress.com>. She currently holds a Major Leverhulme Fellowship (2015–18) that will support her investigation of the contents (musical and otherwise) of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308.

Gavin Lee (gavin.sk.lee@gmail.com) is Assistant Professor of Music at Soochow University School of Music, China, and holds a Ph.D. from Duke University. He is past recipient of a research grant for the study of local new music from the National Arts Council (Singapore) and editor of Rethinking Difference in Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Music (Routledge, forthcoming). Lee is organizer and chair of panels and roundtables at past and forthcoming national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Music Theory and the Society for Ethnomusicology, on topics ranging from interculturalism to affect theory and queer theory. He is current chair of SMT's Queer Resource Group, as well as co-chair of SEM's Gender and Sexualities Task Force.

Stephan Pennington (stephan.pennington@tufts.edu) is an Assistant Professor of Music at Tufts University. He works on popular music and the performance of identity, with special attention to race, gender and sexuality. He is currently preparing a manuscript on the Friedrich Hollaender song ‘Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß (auf Liebe eingestellt)’ and Asphalt Cultural politics at the end of the Weimar Republic.

Jennifer R. Sheppard (sheppard.jennifer@gmail.com) completed her Ph.D. in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on Leoš Janáček's operas. She has published some of this work as articles in Opera Quarterly and the Cambridge Opera Journal. Her subsequent research focuses on intersections between sport and music in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Francesca Vella (fv250@cam.ac.uk) is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. She has published articles and book reviews about opera in nineteenth-century Italy, particularly those of Verdi, in the Cambridge Opera Journal, Studi verdiani and Music and Letters. She has recently started work on a new research project about opera and italianità in Milan, Bologna and Florence between the 1850s and the 1880s, as well as on a case study of Jenny Lind in London in 1847.