Keener, Shawn
Shawn Keener
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.