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Monahin, Nona. (2025). 鈥淎ppendix: List of Extant European Dance Sources: An Annotated Bibliography.鈥 Journal of the Northern Renaissance 16 (2025).
Monahin, Nona. (2024) 鈥淣egotiating Text and Movement: Some Challenges in Staging Dance in Shakespeare鈥檚 Plays.鈥 In The Ball: Pleasure, Power, Politics, 1600鈥1900. 5th Historical Dance Symposium, Burg Rothenfels am Main, 15-19 June, 2022, Germany. Conference Proceedings, edited by Uwe Schlotterm眉ller and Howard Weiner, June 2022. Posted (Nov 2024 ) on Shakespeare and Dance Project website: https://shakespeareandance.com/articles/negotiating-text-and-movement/
Monahin, Nona. (2019). 鈥淒ecoding Dance in Shakespeare鈥檚 Much Ado about Nothing and Twelfth Night.鈥 In Lynsey McCulloch and Brandon Shaw (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance (pp. 49-82). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Monahin, Nona. (2017). 鈥淧rokofiev鈥檚 Romeo and Juliet: Some Consequences of the 鈥楬appy Ending.鈥欌 Borrowers And Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 10, no. 2 (Spring, 2017).
Monahin, Nona. (2015). 鈥淲riting for Posterity: A Reassessment of Arbeau鈥檚 Orch茅sographie (1589).鈥 In Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings, (2015), 125-135. h. doi:10.1017/cor.2015.21
Monahin, Nona. (2011). 鈥淩enaissance Dance: Misura in the Service of Dramaturgy.鈥 In Ann Buckley and Cynthia Cyrus (Eds.), Music, Dance and Society鈥tudies in Memory of Ingrid G.Brainard (pp. 211-230). Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications.
Monahin, Nona & Pash, Meg. (2024, February 22). The Interdependence of Music and Dance in 16th-century Renaissance Dance Reconstruction. Early Dance Symposium 2024 - virtual conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Dance Studies Association鈥檚 Early Dance Working Group.
Monroe, A. (2024) Trob谩r's first album, Il Dit Elle Dit: Love & Dialogue in the World of Christine de Pizan, received a favorable review in Early Music America Magazine. The review highlighted its "exquisite intonation," "delightful lilt," and "clear," "vital," and "well-balanced" sound, and quoted extensively from Artistic Director Allison Monroe's liner notes.
Medieval music ensemble Trob谩r just released their first album, Il Dit Elle Dit: Love and Dialogue in the World of Christine de Pizan, featuring Allison Monroe (Artistic Director), Elena Mullins (Executive Director), Karin Weston, and Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart. The album is now available on all major streaming platforms or via their website: https://www.trobarmedieval.org/album
Monroe, A. (2025) In a review by Cleveland Classical of Les D茅lices' most recent performance, The Mermaid, Allison Monroe received accolades for her "nice fiddle filigree."
