Melissa Tu has joined SUTD as a Lecturer in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Cluster. She earned her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 2015, where she graduated summa cum laude (with highest honours) and won the Joseph R. Strayer Prize in Medieval Studies. In 2016, she obtained an M.Phil. in Medieval and Renaissance Literature from Cambridge University. In 2023, she earned her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Yale University, where her research and writing was awarded the Noah Webster Prize. At Yale, she worked as a Digital Humanities consultant in the Yale DH Lab, and she has published work in Digital Philology and Brill’s Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages. Her research and teaching interests include medieval English literature, media theory, lyric studies, manuscript studies, sound and voice studies, virtuality studies, and music and musical performance. She is also an avid player of piano and violin.