Tim Carter is a musicologist who has taught at the Universities of Leicester and Lancaster, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been awarded numerous fellowships, including at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, the Newberry Library, and the National Humanities Center. Carter is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.