9/26 James Currie

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

James Currie is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at UB. James was previously an Assistant Professor in the College of Music, Loyola University, New Orleans, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Humanities at Columbia University. His primary research and teaching interests include hermeneutic and cultural musicological engagements with music and the Enlightenment; Modernism, style, and the music of the Second Viennese School; music and the ideologies of Romanticism; and critical-theoretical perspectives on music interpretation, including the role of feminist discourse in opera. He has authored many critical articles on music and is presently at work on a book project entitled, Come in Under the Shadow: Music, Failure, and the Act.