Amanda Eubanks Winkler

Amanda Eubanks Winkler is a British-American scholar of English music and theater. She is Director of the Department of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Formerly she was Chair and Professor of Music History and Cultures in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences. Between 2017–2020, she collaborated with the theater historian Richard Schoch on the AHRC Research Project Performing Restoration Shakespeare.

Education Eubanks Winkler completed a B.M. in music history and literature and vocal performance, summa cum laude, at Illinois State University in 1994. She earned a M.A. in musicology from University of Michigan in 1996 and a Ph.D. from the same institution in 2000.

Career Eubanks Winkler joined the faculty of Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences in 2001. She moved to Rutgers in 2023. Her research focuses on English theater music and culture. She was the co-investigator on Performing Restoration Shakespeare, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK (2017-2020) and she is a general editor for The Collected Works of John Eccles (A-R Editions). She has published on a range of topics, including books and essays on Restoration theater music, music and Shakespeare, children's performances in early modern England, performance practice and contemporary Broadway musicals. More recently, she has engaged with practice-based research, running workshops that staged excerpts of William Davenant's Macbeth and Charles Gildon's Measure for Measure (Folger Theatre, Washington DC) and Thomas Middleton's The Witch (Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, Virginia). As part of the Performing Restoration Shakespeare project, she was the music director for a workshop of the Restoration-era Tempest (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London) and co-led a workshop for scholars and was a consultant for a full professional production of Davenant's Macbeth at the Folger Theatre, Washington DC.

Selected works Books

Eubanks Winkler, Amanda; Fretz, Claude; Schoch Richard (2023). Performing Restoration Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009241212.