William R. Bowen

Associate Professor,  History & Culture 

BA, BMus (Carleton), ARCT, ARCM, MA, PhD (Toronto)
email: william.bowen@utoronto.ca

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies website: www.crrs.ca/ (opens in new window)
ITER website: www.itergateway.org (opens in new window)

William Bowen was cross-appointed to the Faculty of Music and the University of Toronto at Scarborough in 1988. He is now Chair of the Department of Humanities at  the University of Toronto at Scarborough. His research interests lie in speculative musical thought from Antiquity to the end of the Renaissance, with particular focus on harmonic science and its implications for Renaissance culture. He is also interested in music for the theatre, especially opera, and has performed with the Canadian Opera Company.

 His book-length publication credits include bibliographies and editing conference proceedings, research tools, scholarly journals, and series of books. In addition to contributions to books and dictionaries, he has published articles and reviews in Early Modern Literary Studies, Journal of Music Theory, Italica,Renaissance and Reformation, Renaissance Quarterly, Renaissance Studies, and the Sixteenth Century Journal. His commitment to online publication is evidenced by his work as the founding director of Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance and as the editor of FICINO. His current projects include writing a monograph on the musical thought of Marsilio Ficino, working on The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place for UofT Press (with Joseph Black and Germaine Warkentin), and preparing critical editions of Pontus de Tyard's Solitaire Second for Editions Honore Champion (with John McClelland) and of Marsilio Ficino's Theologia Platonica for Harvard University Press (with James Hankins and Michael Allen).