Music Department
Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: History, Renaissance, Disability Studies, popular music
Contact Information
Email: jdjones@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 508-793-2699
Office: Brooks 243
Box: 151A
Biography
Jeannette DiBernardo Jones is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Music. Her research focuses on cultural networks in late fifteenth-century France. She is also active in the fields of disability studies, sound studies, and environmental humanities.
Prof. Jones received her Ph.D. in historical musicology from Boston University in 2019, with a dissertation titled, "Rhétorique and Musique: The Poetry of Musical Networks in Fifteenth-Century France," and supervised by Joshua Rifkin. She has published both in early music topics and in disability studies. Her essay, “Gaspar van Weerbeke and France: The Poetic Witness of Guillaume Crétin,” appeared in the collection Gaspar van Weerbeke: New Interpretations (2019), co-edited by Paul Kolb and Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, which is available through open access. Focusing on music and deafness, Prof. Jones contributed the essay, “Imagined Hearing: Music-Making in Deaf Culture” (2015) in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, co-edited by Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner, and Joseph N. Straus. Her research in progress examines fifteenth-century French poems that list musicians as a historical record, bearing evidence of the existing social ecology of poets and musicians in France at the time. She is also continuing her work on the biography of Josquin des Prez, presented during the 500th anniversary year of his death (2021).
Prof. Jones regularly presents her work at national and international conferences and as an invited speaker. She is active in the American Musicological Society, where she has served as a co-chair of the Music and Disability Studies study group and as member-at-large of the Council. She also serves as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Musicological Research.
Courses that Prof Jones teaches regularly include History of Rock, Music and Disabilities, and courses on music and the environment. She also teaches in the first-year Montserrat program, Natural World Cluster, with the two-semester sequence, Sounding the Environment and Performing the Environment, in which she regularly encourages the students to get outside, listen deeply, and keep a nature journal.