Luisa Nardini holds a doctorate in musicology from Universita degli Studi "La Sapienza," Rome and a Diploma in Piano Performance from Conservatorio Statale di Musica Nicola Sala, Benevento, as well as a Licence in Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, and is currently an associate professor in the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. She has presented her work on Gregorian chant, medieval music theory, music and visual art, manuscript studies, and oral and written transmission of liturgical chant at scholarly forums throughout North America and Europe. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Acta Musico logica, Mediaeval Studies, Speculum, Plainsong and Medieval Music, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, and Cantus Planus, as well as several collec tions. An Associate Research Scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University and the recipient of research grants from the Universities of Naples, Rome, Italy, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and The University of Texas, Austin, she also serves as an honorary faculty member for the doctorate in musicology at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and is regularly invited as a lecturer at the Centro studi sull'Ars Nova Italiana del Trecento in Certaldo, Italy. In 2012 she was awarded the Gladiatore d'oro, the highest honorific prize of the Province of Benevento for "having contributed with her sophisticated, extraordinary, and passionate studies to the development of the scholar ship in the field of medieval music and chant."
