Jennifer Campbell
During the
2007-08 academic year Ms. Campbell joined the CMU music faculty as a
temporary instructor. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in music
history and theory at the University of Connecticut, where she
earned a M.A. in music history and completed a thesis on Virgil
Thomson’s ballet Filling Station. Prior to pursuing these
degrees, she received a bachelor of arts in music, magna cum laude,
from Asbury College.
Throughout her
graduate studies, Ms. Campbell served as a teaching assistant
and adjunct lecturer at the University of Connecticut, where she
taught classes in aural skills, music theory, and music
appreciation; while there, her abilities in music theory pedagogy
were recognized by the UConn music faculty, who nominated her for
the university-wide “UConn Outstanding Teaching Assistant” award.
Before completing her assistantship and beginning the research for
her dissertation, she became a member of the part-time faculty at
Central Connecticut State University, where she instructed classes
in all levels of music theory, directed an independent study in
twentieth-century music, and co-advised a student’s honors thesis.
In addition to her classroom teaching, she has provided piano
instruction to students of various ages through the UConn Community
School of the Arts and her own private studio.
An active researcher
and scholar, Ms. Campbell is as likely to be found rooting around a
dank, dusty library archive as she is sitting at the piano
deconstructing a complex composition. The dual nature of her
doctoral degree requires her to be equally well versed in history
and theory; in both fields, most of her work centers on art music of
the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The recipient of a
University of Connecticut Dissertation Fellowship, she also has
strong research interests in interdisciplinary topics such as music
and politics, cultural studies, and music and dance. She has
presented her scholarship at regional and national conferences,
including the University of Connecticut Colloquium Series, the New
England Chapter of the American Musicological Society, and the
Society for American Music. Her most recent paper, “On Being a ‘Good
Neighbor’: Roosevelt, Rockefeller, and the Exportation of American
Musical Identity,” was given at the national meeting of the American
Musicological Society in Los Angeles, California in November 2006.
Additionally, she is an active member of several professional
organizations, including the American Musicological Society, the
Society for American Music, and the Society for Music Theory.
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