Paul Christiansen
Paul Christiansen is an Assistant Professor of
Musicology at the University of Southern Maine School of Music. He has also
taught at the University of California, Davis and at Palacký University in
Olomouc, Czech Republic. Dr. Christiansen was awarded a B.A. degree cum laude
in media communications (television production) from California State
University, Sacramento, and undertook additional study at the University of
California, Berkeley (music) and Harvard University (Czech language) before
earning a Ph.D. in musicology and criticism from the University of California,
Davis. Courses he has offered include the life and works of Mozart, 19th-century
music, 20th-century music, analysis of 20th-century music,
world music, the history of rock music, and a seminar on meaning in music.
Dr. Christiansen has been the recipient of various
research grants and fellowships, including a Fulbright full grant, which allowed
him to conduct archival research in the Czech Republic in 1998 and 1999. Areas
of his research specialization include Czech music, rock music, and music and
the media; he has particular expertise in linguistics and music. Having
published articles and reviews in the Czech musicological Internet journal
Acta Musicologica, MLA Notes, the New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians (7th ed.), and the Journal of Musicological
Research, he has most recently edited a book entitled Imprints: Essays on
Czech Music and Aesthetics (Olomouc, Prague: Palacký University and Togga
Press, 2005) by Czech musicologist Jan Vičar.
In 2004, in commemoration of the Janáček jubilee
year, Dr. Christiansen gave commentary for BBC 3 Radio and National Czech Radio
Prague, and he has presented research at international conferences in England,
Austria, and the Czech Republic. A member of the American Musicological Society
and the Linguistic Society of America, he is currently part of a team of
musicologists who are working, with the financial support of the Czech Science
Foundation, on the establishment of a Center for Research on the life and works
of 20th-century Czech composer Alois Hába. Most recently, Dr.
Christiansen has been writing articles on topics diverse as orientalism in
Haydn’s string quartets and on the voice of authority in the music and texts of
Steely Dan.
Contact:
Paul Christiansen
University of Southern Maine School
of Music
37 College Avenue
Gorham, ME 04038
207-780-5382
pchristiansen@usm.maine.edu
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