Shawn Keener

Trained as a music historian, Shawn Keener is a graphic designer, translator, and book indexer 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), Trobár (Cleveland), and Severall Friends (Santa Fe). Before launching Keener Editorial in late 2019, Shawn worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago and at A-R Editions (Middleton, WI), the leading North American publisher of scholarly editions of music. keenereditorial.com