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Monahin, Nona. (2025). “Appendix: List of Extant European Dance Sources: An Annotated Bibliography.” Journal of the Northern Renaissance 16 (2025). https://jnr2.hcommons.org/issues/16-dance-2025/
Monahin, Nona. (2024) “Negotiating Text and Movement: Some Challenges in Staging Dance in Shakespeare’s Plays.” In The Ball: Pleasure, Power, Politics, 1600–1900. 5th Historical Dance Symposium, Burg Rothenfels am Main, 15-19 June, 2022, Germany. Conference Proceedings, edited by Uwe Schlottermüller 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). “Decoding Dance in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing and Twelfth Night.” 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). “Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet: Some Consequences of the ‘Happy Ending.’” Borrowers And Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 10, no. 2 (Spring, 2017). https://borrowers-ojs-azsu.tdl.org/borrowers/article/view/271/539
Monahin, Nona. (2015). “Writing for Posterity: A Reassessment of Arbeau’s Orchésographie (1589).” In Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings, (2015), 125-135. http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S2049125515000217. doi:10.1017/cor.2015.21
Monahin, Nona. (2011). “Renaissance Dance: Misura in the Service of Dramaturgy.” In Ann Buckley and Cynthia Cyrus (Eds.), Music, Dance and Society…Studies 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’s Early Dance Working Group.
