Aaron Allen
Professor of Musicology, Director of Environment & Sustainability Program
School of Music
Email Address: asallen@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.256.1415
Education
Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2012)
Ph.D. Music, Harvard University (2007)
A.M. Music, Harvard University (2002)
B.A. Music, Tulane University (1999)
B.S. Ecological Studies, Tulane University (1999)
Biography
In addition to being Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, Dr. Allen is Director of the Environment & Sustainability Program in the Department of Geography, Environment and Sustainability in the College of Arts and Sciences.
After completing a dissertation on Beethoven reception in nineteenth-century Italy, Dr. Allen has continued to develop this unusual field of reception studies and will (someday) complete a book tentatively entitled Fidelio in Italy: Beethoven Reception, Historiography, and the Crisis of 19th-Century Opera. He travels to Italy frequently and is the co-instructor of a unique travel class that combines music and sustainability studies. The course is open to all UNCG students and usually takes place in odd numbered years. Feel free to reach out if you’re interested in learning more about it!
Dr. Allen’s main research and creative activities are in ecomusicology. He published Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature (Routledge 2016), which won the 2018 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. More recently, Dr. Allen and Dr. Jeff Todd Titon published Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (Oxford University Press 2023). His collaborative essay “Ecomusicology: Tributaries and Distributaries of an Integrative Field” (MRA 2022) is an open-source essay on the topic.
Some of Dr. Allen’s publications are freely available here.
Subjects Taught
- GES 162: Introduction to Sustainability
- GES 264: Introduction to Environment through Film
- GES 660: Sustainable Campus Operations
- GES 662: Sustainability
- GES 682: Topics in Ethics & Aesthetics
- MUS 674/325: First Nights: Five Performance Premieres
Research
- Environmental Humanities
- Sustainability and the Arts
- Ecomusicology