Keener, Shawn

Jul 20

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Trained as a music historian, Shawn Marie Keener is an editor, indexer, and graphic designer based

in Chicago. Her scholarly work examining the intersection of vernacular song and cultural memory

in 16th-century Venice was supported by a Fulbright grant (Italy, 2007–08) and a Harper

Dissertation-Year Fellowship at the University of Chicago. Since 2012 she has curated and designed

projections for live performance and concert videos that are visual extensions of historically

informed performance. She has collaborated with the Newberry Consort (Chicago), Les Délices

(Cleveland), Blue Heron (Boston), and Severall Friends (Santa Fe). Before launching Keener

Editorial in late 2019, Shawn worked for several years at the Newberry Library in Chicago and was

for three years a staff editor in the Recent Researches series at A-R Editions (Middleton, WI), the

leading North American publisher of scholarly editions of music.

Martinez, Nythia