Jennifer Bain, Ph.D. (2001) in Music Theory, Stony Brook University, is Chair of the Department of Music at Dalhousie University. She has published widely on medieval music, recently editing a special issue of the Journal of Music Theory.

Deborah McGrady, Ph.D. (1997) in French, University of California, Santa Barbara, is Chair of the Department of French at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience (Toronto, 2006).