Sheridan Zahl (he/him) is a PhD student in historical musicology whose research interests involve the intersections of post-structuralist philosophy, aesthetics, and music. He is particularly intrigued by questions of how music can reveal the connections between materialism and ideality in ways which underline how those domains are interrelated, dependent on each other, and ultimately unitary. Adjacent to an interest in connecting the material and the ideal, he also considers issues related to instrumental performance, critiques of (post)humanism, and ecomusicology in a philosophical register. Sheridan earned a BA in music and a BA in applied mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2014. After years teaching mathematics to underserved student populations on the west coast, he moved to New York and earned an MM from the Eastman School of Music in classical guitar performance before enrolling in the musicology PhD program.