Samantha Bassler

Samantha Bassler is a multiply neurodivergent and disabled musician and musicologist. She works as a Part-Time Lecturer in Music (level 2) at Rutgers University-Newark, and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of music history and theory at New York University. Samantha’s research includes music, gender, and disability in early modern England, advocacy for scholars with invisible disabilities and neurodivergence, trauma-informed pedagogy and universal design, and music antiquarians during the long eighteenth century. In December 2023, Samantha coedited, with Katherine Butler and Katie Bank, the edited collection Byrd Studies in the Twenty-First Century.