- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
Susan Rankin is Professor of Medieval Music at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. Her research interests lie in three directions: the manuscript transmission and forms of writing of music in the early middle ages, early medieval polyphony and ritual expressed in music throughout the middle ages. Her most recent major publication, from 2018, is a monograph on the music scripts and notations invented by the Carolingians, Writing Sound in Carolingian Europe, and she has recently finished a second Carolingian book, Sounding the Word of God: Carolingian Books for Singers, based on the Conway lectures delivered at the University of Notre Dame Indiana in 2017. From 2019-2020 she was a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, working with Margot Fassler towards a book in which dramatic modes of action in and alongside the medieval liturgy are examined. She was awarded the Dent Medal in 1995 and is a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and Corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society.