Mark Everist is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on the music of western Europe from 1150-1330, music for the stage in nineteenth-century France, Mozart, reception theory, and historiography. He is the author of six monographs, the most recent of which are Genealogies of Music and Memory and The Empire at the Opera, editor of three volumes of the Magnus Liber Organi, and has published over 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and collections of essays. The recipient of the Solie (2010) and Slim (2011) awards of the American Musicological Society, he was elected a fellow of the Academia Europaea in 2012. Everist was President of the Royal Musical Association from 2011-17 and was elected a corresponding member of the American Musicological Society in 2014. He was visiting professor at the Sorbonne in 2021-22 and was elected to a fellowship at the French Institute of Advanced Studies from 2023-24. In July 2024, Everist was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture.