Deanna Pelleranno

Deanna Pelleranno (dpellera@uni-mainz.de) is a scholar of war, music, and sound in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. She completed her doctoral studies as part of the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War” at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz under the supervision of Klaus Pietschmann and Barbara Henning. Previously she received her master’s degrees in musicology and music librarianship at Indiana University. Her dissertation focused on the involvement of the singers of the French chapel during the early-Italian Wars (1494–1515), and recent and forthcoming publications include research on war and sound in the city of Grenoble, German language songs about war, and the role of sound in triumphal entries. She has recently accepted a postdoctoral position at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.