Aine Palmer

Áine Palmer (2019) is a PhD candidate in Music History. Prior to coming to Yale, she completed a BA in Music and English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, where her undergraduate dissertation on authorial identity in the complete works manuscripts of Guillaume de Machaut won the Geoffrey Singleton Prize for Music. Áine’s doctoral dissertation focuses on the Chansonnier Cangé, a late thirteenth century source of trouvère song. In it she draws on codicology and paleography, critical theory, and the history of notation to consider the inscription of sound in medieval lyric anthologies.

Áine has wide intellectual interests, particularly in feminist and queer theory and popular music, and she has designed and taught an undergraduate seminar on race, migration, and Irish popular music. She has presented her work at a range of international conferences including Med Ren, Early Book Society, Leeds IMC and Kalamazoo ICMS. Áine is a recipient of the Sterling Prize Fellowship (2019-2021) and the Chateaubriand Fellowship (2024).