I'm Cynthia Cyrus, a musicologist/monastic historian and professor at Vanderbilt University. My research focuses on late medieval and early modern women's monastic culture -- literate, musical, and otherwise -- particularly at the intersections of silence, sound and memory.
On this blog, I share insights from my research and reflect on the ways silences and sounds shape our lives. I also toss in a healthy dose of observations about my sources of inspiration from our multimedia past, with a thick swirl of art, music, literature, history, and prayer-books. When I’m not teaching or writing, you’ll find me hiking, reading, or collecting early morning sunrises on our farm in Tennessee.
