Samantha BasslerSamantha Bassler is a scholar and educator who teaches in the music departments at NYU Steinhardt and Rutgers University at Newark and owns and teaches at Stellar Music Space, her own private music school in Brooklyn, NY. As a disabled and neurodiverent academic, her research is focused on music and disability, from an advocacy perspective and to better understand the social concept of disability in early modern cultures. After co-editing Myth and Story in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (2019), she has been expanding her work on early music and disability into a book project that is under consideration with Boydell and Brewer. She is also active in music and disability justice initiatives at the American Musicological Society, where she gave three talks at the 2022 conference, all centred around acceptance of neurodivergent and disabled scholars and students. Read More Read Less