Erika Honisch

Erika Supria Honisch is Associate Professor of Critical Music Studies and Graduate Program Director in the Stony Brook University Music Department of Music. She works on music, politics, and religious culture in early modern Europe, with a focus on historical sound studies and Habsburg Central Europe. Her research has been published in Journal of Musicology, Early Music History, Plainsong and Medieval Music, Organised Sound, Austrian History Yearbook, and Common Knowledge, and in various edited collections. Her article, On the Trail of a Knight of Santiago: Collecting Music and Mapping Knowledge in Renaissance Europe, co-authored with Tess Knighton and Ferran Escrivà-Llorca, was awarded the 2020 Westrup Prize from the Music & Letters Trust, and she was keynote speaker at the 2022 conference Sounding Habsburg: Sonic Circulations in Central Europe. Honisch has partnered with a number of early music groups, including Schola Antiqua, the Newberry Consort and, most recently, Cinquecento, for their album Regnart: Missa Christ ist erstanden and other works (Hyperion). A frequent collaborator on international research projects, she is co-editor, with Giovanni Zanovello (Indiana University) of the Inclusive Early Music project, a member of the Spanish working group CONFRASOUND, a founding member of the Musica Rudolphina scholarly collective, based in Prague, and a member of the editorial board of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.