Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS)

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Roseen Giles (Music): "'Rappresentare al vivo': Style and Representation in Early Modern Italy"
Samantha Chang (Art History): "Framing the Scene in the Seventeenth Century: Doors and Doorways in the Painter's Studio"

Roseen Giles is a Faculty Fellow at the CRRS for 2017-18. She completed a doctoral degree in musicology at the University of Toronto in March 2016 with a dissertation exploring the aesthetics of Claudio Monteverdi’s late madrigals, in particular, the relationship between music and poetry in the composer’s settings of Giambattista Marino’s verses. Her scholarly interests are broad and far-reaching, including music and devotional practice in the early modern period, Baroque Italian poetry, the music of the Renaissance, and the musical notation of medieval Armenia. Her research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and she was the 2013 recipient of the American Musicological Society’s Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship. She is also an active baroque flautist, performing regularly in both orchestral and chamber settings.

Samantha Chang is a PhD student from the Graduate Department of Art at University of Toronto where she holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Award and Faculty of Arts and Science Top Doctoral Fellowship. A professional flutist and conductor, Samantha graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London (England) and she is a fellow of the Trinity College London and the London College of Music. Samantha’s research explores the conceptual relationships between visual arts and music in the early modern period, specifically those of artistic identity, temporality, synesthesia, and performativity. Her current research project examines the representation of music in the painter’s studio. ... See MoreSee Less