Susan Forscher Weiss is Professor Emerita, Musicology and Modern Languages and Literature, Johns Hopkins University. Among her scholarly interests are pedagogy, organology, iconography, prosopography, and musical theatre. Her publications include articles in national and international journals, chapters in peer-reviewed books, and Bologna Q 18: An Introduction and Facsimile Edition (1988), Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, co-edited with Russell Murray and Cynthia Cyrus (2010), soon to be published in a Russian translation, and A Cole Porter Companion, co-edited with Don Randel and Matthew Shaftel (2016). She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants and has served on several boards, including the RSA. In 2014, she was Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa i Tatti, and in 2019 was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. in 2024, she was an Alexander Grass Humanities Institute fellow. Her recent scholarship focuses on musical diagrams with an essay forthcoming this spring in the volume published by Peter Lang, The Art of Musical Diagrams – From Boethius to Albersheim and Beyond, edited by Daniel Muzzulini, my co-chair of the IMS Study Group on Musical Diagrams, as well as on the intersections between musicians and visual artists in the early modern. She is currently an Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins.