PhD Columbia University

222 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

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email:  jcurrie@buffalo.edu
 

James Currie was educated at Cambridge University (Girton College, BA (Hons) 1991) and Columbia University in New York City (PhD, 2001).  He has held a fellowship in the international interdisciplinary research center The Society of Fellows at Columbia University (2000-2002), has taught in the College of Music at Loyola University in New Orleans (2002-2003), and is presently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).  Covering a variety of historical epochs and genres, and dialectically articulated at the intersections between philosophy, music history, cultural critique and creative writing, his work appears and is forthcoming in The Musical Quarterly, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Journal of Musicological Research, Popular Music, Current Musicology, Journal of Musicological Research, Mozart Studies (CUP, edited Simon Keefe), Interdisciplinary Studies in Music and elsewhere.  He has also lectured widely as a guest lecturer in North America and the U.K., including at Oxford University, Glasgow University, Washington Univeristy (Seattle), University of Western Ontario, and Tulane University.  His present projects are concerned primarily with critiquing postmodern politics both within and without the academy through the figure of music, and, thus, he is at work on a collection of essays entitled “In tempo di guerra: Music and the Political Failure of Postmodernity.”  He is also active as a poet and involved in a number of ongoing performance art and video art projects.