Flannery McIntyre is a PhD candidate in Musicology and Medieval Studies. Her dissertation – “An History of Music and Intellectual Culture, 300 – 900 A.D” – explores how music took on a new importance during the fourth through tenth centuries, working to shape patterns of thought, to connect a pre-Christian past with a Christian present, and as a means of intellectual and political legitimization. She examines canonical musicological sources alongside the archaeological, historical, and literary, including a 10th-century drama by the first known woman music theorist, detailed diagrams in theory treatises, and archaeological evidence for the water organ and the early medieval lyre. While many of her sources come from the Latin language centers of the fourth through tenth centuries – that is modern-day North Africa, Italy, Iberia, France, and Germany – some of them come from as far away as Kazakhstan and China, displaying the global reach of music during the end of the ancient and beginning of the medieval world.
Her research has been generously supported by a Eugene K. Wolf Travel Grant from the American Musicological Society (2025), the Paul J. Alexander Memorial Fellowship from the Graduate Division (2025), the Medieval Academy of America/CARA Summer Scholarship (2023), and the Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study (2021-2023). Before starting her PhD, she earned an MPhil in Medieval Archaeology from the University of Cambridge and an A.B. in Archaeology and the Ancient World (Classical), Medieval Cultures, and Music (History/Theory/Composition) from Brown University.
Flannery has taught as the instructor of record for courses on ‘Shakespeare and Music’ and ‘Ancient and Medieval Music Archaeology,’ and as a graduate student instructor for courses on music in American culture and the history of music for both majors and non-majors.
