Elaine Sisman

Elaine Sisman (US) is the Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music at Columbia University. She received the PhD from Princeton University and has taught at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. Her numerous publications on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music include “Music and the Labyrinth of Melancholy” (Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, 2016), “Haydn’s Solar Poetics: The Tageszeiten Symphonies and Enlightenment Knowledge” (JAMS, 2013), and “Variations” (NGroveD2, 2001). A member of the Joseph Haydn Institut (Cologne) and the Mozart-Akademie (Salzburg), she served a term as president of the American Musicological Society, which elected her to honorary membership (2011). In 2014, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.