Mark Rodgers recently earned his Ph.D. in musicology at Yale University, working on Italian vernacular song and the history of tonality; he has taught on the music history faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  He majored in music and comparative literature as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, then attended the University of Oxford, where he earned a masters degree in musicology.   He has read papers at the American Musicological Society, the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the Renaissance Society of America, and at many conferences that have focused on early modern and Italian madrigal topics.  For his research and teaching, he has been presented with the Prize Teaching Award at Yale University, and a Flex Grant at the University of Massachusetts. One of his current research projects involves what he terms the “cultural archive of tonality,” with particular attention to Italian vernacular genres.  He is also writing about the history of the Italian madrigal, as well as the Romanesca, a melodic and harmonic pattern found in compositions across the 16^th and 17^th centuries.