Next Meeting:
AMS 2008 Nashville
Committee Members: AMS Committee on the Status of Women (2008-09)
Wendy Heller (Chair) is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Italian Studies at Princeton University. Her research interests encompass Late Renaissance and Baroque music, especially Monteverdi, Cavalli, Handel, and Bach; opera studies, with emphasis on interdisciplinary studies, particularly gender and sexuality, and classics; women and music; and Jewish music. Her book Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women’s Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice was named a Finalist in the Otto Kinkeldey Award, and received the best book award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.
Katherine Axtell, Student Representative
Joanna Demers
Eric Drott
Nadine Hubbs, Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Music (Theory) at the University of Michigan, is a musicologist, cultural historian, and critic of classical and popular music. Her publications include articles on musical queer codes in disco, sex-gender rhetoric in the songs of British pop star Morrissey, and lesbian-gay involvements in classical music and opera. Hubbs's book The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity (California, 2004) examines how the Copland-Thomson circle of gay composers served as architects of American identity during the most homophobic period in U.S. history. Her current research interests include country music and its workings vis-à-vis class, gender, race, and sexuality. She has previously served on the Society for Music Theory’s Committee on the Status of Women.
Timothy J. McGee
Kimberlyn Montford, Assistant Professor of Music at Trinity University, holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. In addition to articles on Baroque sacred music and African-American music, her research interests include gender studies and film music aesthetics. Her most recent research is on the spiritual madrigals of the seventeenth-century Roman composer Paolo Quagliati.
Giulio Ongaro is a specialist in 17th-century Italian music and currently serves at Dean of Faculty Affairs and Curriculum at the University of Southern California. He oversees committes dealing with many issues for women in academia, including hiring, benefits, tenure, and retention.
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