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Sherry Lee

Associate Professor

Faculty of Music

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Music
  • (416) 287-7194 (Work)
  • University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C5, Canada

BIO

Sherry Lee is Associate Professor of Musicology, a Fellow of Trinity College, and a Fellow of Victoria College, where she currently serves as Director of the Northrop Frye Centre at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests are focused in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and include music and cultures of modernism, opera, music and technology, sound studies, and musical discourses of nature and landscape. She has received multiple grants and awards from SSHRC, the Jackman Humanities Institute, the American Musicological Society, Oxford University Press, and others, and her publications appear in 19th-Century Music, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cambridge Opera Journal, Music & Letters, New German Critique, the Germanic Review, and several edited volumes. Lee is currently producing a book, Adorno at the Opera, for Cambridge University Press; also for CUP she is co-editing the volume Music, Sound, and Global Modernism: A Critical History. She is the lead UofT P.I. for the new IDC in Environmental Humanities and Climate Justice, in partnership with the Universities of Oxford and Pennsylvania.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Acting Director
    Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria College, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2023
  • Associate Dean, Research
    Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, Canada2015 - 2019
  • Associate Professor, Music History and Culture
    University of Toronto, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Canada2011 - 2015
  • Program Director, Music and Culture
    University of Toronto, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Canada2007 - 2012
  • Assistant Professor, Music History and Culture
    University of Toronto, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, Canada2006 - 2011
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Musicology
    University of Victoria School of Music, Canada2004 - 2006
  • Sessional Instructor
    University of British Columbia School of Music, Canada2004 - 2004

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Musicology
    University of British Columbia, Canada2003
  • M.A., Musicology
    University of Western Ontario, Canada1997
  • B.Mus., Honours, Music History
    University of Western Ontario, Canada1995

AVAILABILITY

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