Music History
Aaron Allen
Aaron S. Allen, Assistant Professor of Musicology, joined the UNCG School
of Music faculty in 2007. His
research is primarily in the field of Beethoven
reception, specifically in nineteenth-century Italy. In addition, he is
also interested in studies of music and nature (a.k.a. “eco-musicology”).
Dr. Allen received his Ph.D. and A.M. in 2006 from
Harvard University, where he was also Lecturer in Music and Core
Post-Doctoral Fellow before coming to UNCG. At Harvard, Dr. Allen was
recognized with numerous awards from Harvard’s Derek Bok Center for
Teaching & Learning, and his year of research in Italy was funded by the
Oscar S. Schafer Fellowship for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
As a graduate student, Dr. Allen was asked to serve on the pedagogy
working group of the Harvard College undergraduate Curriculum Review
Committee, and he was for three years the assistant dean of one of
Harvard’s undergraduate colleges. His bachelor degrees (B.A. in music
and B.S. in environmental studies) are from Tulane University in New
Orleans, and although having lived in various southern states, he
originally hails from West Virginia. 336-256-0165 or email: asallen@uncg.edu
Lorena Guillén
Lorena
Guillén, lecturer, joined the UNCG faculty in 2007. She received
a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology and Music Theory and a M.M. in Vocal Performance
from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests encompass
issues of text perception in vocal music with special emphasis in repertoire
of the 20th and 21st centuries and Latin American popular music. Her dissertation
research, funded by a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship of the College of Arts
and Sciences of the SUNY Buffalo, readapts the concept of “poetic mode
of perception” from the field of linguistics to explain how we perceive
words set into music. Guillén has written about issues of authenticity
in Latin American popular music and conducted study abroad classes with direct
immersion in the carnival preparations of Rio de Janeiro and San Salvador de
Bahia, comparing different samba styles (Brazil) and studying tango and candombe
in Buenos Aires and Andean music in the Argentine NW high-plateau. Guillén
keeps an active career as a singer of contemporary music (Stockhausen-Kursen-Germany,
June in Buffalo-SUNY at Buffalo, New Music New Haven-Yale Univ., Music at the
Forefront-Bowling Green State Univ.) and is a member of the interdisciplinary
ensemble Musica Aperta of Washington DC. From 2003 to 2006 she was a Resident
Artist at Hartwick College, in Oneonta, NY. Previously she taught at SUNY at
Buffalo. 336-334-5852 or email: l_guille@uncg.edu
Elizabeth L. Keathley
Elizabeth L. Keathley, Assistant Professor, Historical Musicology,
teaches the music history sequence for music majors and graduate seminars in
twentieth-century music and music and gender. Keathley received the PhD and
MA in Music History, as well as an Advanced Certificate in Women’s Studies,
from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her research addresses
issues raised by musical modernism, gender, ethnicity, and other forms of “difference.” She
has published both in the U.S. and in Europe on the works of Arnold Schoenberg
and Leonard Bernstein, and she has presented scholarly papers on Alma Mahler,
Christine de Pisan, and the vocal music of Milton Babbitt, as well as on the
gendered dimensions of rap and electronic pop music. Keathley’s current project
is a book on the ways that women influenced musical modernism in capacities
other than composer. She is active in the American Musicological Society, the
College Music Society, the Society for American Music, and the International
Alliance for Women in Music, and she is co-chair of Gender Research in Music
Education,. 336-334-5911 or email: elkeathl@uncg.edu.
Kailan Rubinoff
Kailan
Rubinoff, Assistant Professor of Musicology, joined the UNCG faculty
in 2007. She holds a B.A. in Music from the University of Pennsylvania, a Performance
Certificate and Second Phase diploma in historical performance (Baroque and
Classical flute) from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and a Ph.D in Music
from the University of Alberta, Canada. Her doctoral research, which focused
on the Early Music movement in the Netherlands, was supported by grants from
the Fulbright Program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada. Her other interests include the history and reception of 20th-century
art music, ethnography of western musical cultures, performance practices of
the Baroque and Classical periods, French Baroque music, critical theory, and
popular music. She has presented her research at the national meetings of the
American Musicological Society and Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Canadian
chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Previously,
she taught music history, world music and popular music studies at the University
of Western Ontario, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Mount Allison University.
336-334-9859 or email: krrubino@uncg.edu
Joan Titus
Joan
Titus, Assistant Professor in Musicology, joined the UNCG faculty
in 2007. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, a B.A.M.
from the
University of Arizona in Music History. Her research interests include Russian
music, twentieth-century music, film music, and Native American popular music
of the Southwest. As a Lecturer and Teaching Assistant at Ohio State, she taught
a diverse range of courses, including music of the world, Western art music,
and rock. Her dissertation and forthcoming publications center on issues of
modernism and socialist realism in the early film music of Dmitry Shostakovich.
Dr. Titus’ book, currently underway, analyzes Shostakovich’s early
film scores and their symbiotic relationship with socio-cultural film and musical
practices during early Stalinism. Her work has been supported by multiple research
and language study trips to Russia generously funded by several Department
of Education Foreign Language Area Studies fellowships (FLAS), the Ohio State
Presidential Fellowship, and other university grants, awards, and fellowships.
Dr. Titus has given numerous presentations at national and international conferences
on Russian music and film, including the annual meetings of the American Musicological
Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the International Shostakovich
Centenary Conference. A former Arizonan, Dr. Titus also performs fieldwork
and has given various presentations on Waila, the social dance music of the
Tohono O’odham in Southern Arizona. 336-334-3589 or email: j_titus@uncg.edu
