Sean Gurd is Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Iphigenias at Aulis: Textual Multiplicity, Radical Philology (Cornell University Press, 2006); Work in Progress: Literary Revision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome (Oxford University Press, 2012), Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (Fordham University Press, 2016), and The Origins of Music Theory in the Age of Plato (Bloomsbury, 2019), and has edited Philology and its Histories (Ohio State University Press, 2010), and co-edited ‘Pataphilology, an Irreader (Punctum, 2018). With Pauline LeVen he edited the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Western Music in Antiquity (Bloomsbury: forthcoming).