Joy H. Calico
Professor and Chair of Musicology

Joy H. Calico is Professor of Musicology and chair of the Department of Musicology. Her scholarship focuses on interdisciplinary Cold War cultural politics, opera since 1900, and Arnold Schoenberg. Her current projects include a theory of twentieth- and twenty-first-century opera according to scene type built on Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin (under contract with University of California Press), and a co-edited volume for OUP entitled Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900.  In Fall 2024 she and Daniel Chua will also launch the California Studies in Global Musicology book series.

She is the author of two monographs published by California: Brecht at the Opera (2008; paperback 2019) and Arnold Schoenberg’s A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe (2014; expanded Italian edition published in 2023; Russian translation forthcoming in 2024).Calico has published articles and book chapters on Joan La Barbara, music encoding and pedagogy, atonal music and human flourishing, Olga Neuwirth, Kaija Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann, Hanns Eisler, Bertolt Brecht, Schoenberg and noise, and East German opera directors, among other things. Her most recent work is a chapter theorizing dramaturgies of trauma and sound design in Chaya Czernowin’s Infinite Now for Contemporary Opera in Flux, edited by Yayoi Uno Everett (University of Michigan Press, fall 2024).

Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Radcliffe Institute, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Sacher Stiftung, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Academy in Berlin, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Howard Foundation, the DAAD, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. In winter term 2019 she was Gerstein Visiting Distinguished Professor at the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.

She is a member of the working team of the international Black Opera Research Network (BORN) and served on the Nashville Opera board for nearly a decade. Calico is former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society as well as a former Director-at-Large for the AMS board (2019-21). She was co-founder and coordinator of the Music and Sound Studies Network of the German Studies Association and served on the GSA’s board (2013-2016), during which time she was also Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt University.

Catherine Provenzano
Assistant Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Critical and Contemporary Perspectives on Music Technology)
Holley Replogle-Wong
Lecturer in Musicology, Program Director of Center for Musical Humanities
Kat De Nicola
Assistant to the Chair - Department of Musicology and Global Jazz Studies Program
David MacFadyen
Professor and Chair of Music Industry, Professor - Musicology and Comparative Literature
Jessica Schwartz
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Punk and DIY)
Mark Kligman
Mickey Katz Chair of Jewish Music and Professor - Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities, Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Elizabeth Randell Upton
Associate Professor - Musicology and Humanities
Nina Eidsheim
Professor of Musicology, Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab
John Lee
Manager, Ethnomusicology & Musicology Departments
Thomas Hodgson
Assistant Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Music and Data, Global Music Industry)
Tiffany Naiman
Instructor - Music Industry & Musicology (Critical Perspectives, Capstone Sequence, History of Popular Music), Director of Undergraduate Programs in Music Industry
Raymond Knapp
Distinguished Professor of Musicology, Disability Studies, and Humanities; Director of the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities; Director of Graduate Studies in Musicology
Jenny Olivia Johnson
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Associate Professor - Musicology
Mitchell Morris
Professor Emeritus - Musicology
Robert Fink
Special Academic Senior Associate Dean, Professor - Music Industry, Musicology and Humanities (Music Theory, Analysis of Popular Music, Internships and Industry Partnerships)
Cesar Favila
Associate Professor - Musicology, Director of Undergraduate Studies

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