Dr Michelle Castelletti identifies as an interdisciplinarian looking for connections across time, discipline, and medium. Following her studies which culminated in a Doctorate in Music (2013), she extended her studies into the liberal arts, and architectural history.  She later read for a Master of Studies in Literature and Arts, and a Master of Studies in Historical Studies, specialising in Medieval History.  Michelle is a medievalist, currently engaged in doctoral research at the University of Oxford (affiliation: New College; supervisor: Dr Elizabeth Gemmill), focussing on devotional practice in late medieval England, and the search for the sublime and the abstract sense of encounter with God, through the use (and symbolism) of light; and the significance given to this as shown through material culture (e.g. stained glass, candles, architecture, evidence in illuminated manuscripts), and documentation (e.g. wills, accounts, bishops' registers, visitation records).  She is captivated by the interrelationship between ecclesiastic architectural space, liturgical rite, and the senses.  She is a tutor for the Department for Continuing Education, as well as for Regent’s Park College Oxford Prospects and Tutorials programmes.  Michelle is enamoured with material culture, particularly with medieval ecclesiastical 'objects'.  She is on the committee of the Oxford Medieval Society; and was one of the convenors for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2023.   Her next presentation (The Sherborne Missal, BL Add MS 74236, c.1399/1400 – 1407: a case study in patronage and liturgical practice in later medieval England) will be delivered at the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Festival 2023 in Canterbury, Kent.  In Oxford, in June, she will be discussing the vibrancy (or not) of late medieval England, and the changes in the sacred soundscape brought about by the shifting paradigms of the Tudor Court during the Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries.  She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; affiliate of the Society of Antiquaries; and member of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, and the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy.  In her parallel life as an international award-winning artist, Michelle is a conductor, composer, and interdisciplinary curator.  She is published by Universal Edition Vienna, and recorded by BIS Records and ARS Produktion. Michelle is the Director of Oxford Festival of the Arts.