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Core Faculty: Susan Thomas
Dr. Susan Thomas, Assistant Professor of Music and Women's Studies received
her Ph.D. in musicology from Brandeis University in 2002. Dr. Thomas’ research interests include music and gender, transnationalism and migration, embodiment and performativity, music and race relations, and opera studies. A specialist on Cuban music, her book Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Other recently published articles and chapters include, “Cosmopolitan, International, Transnational: Locating Cuban Music,” in Fernández, ed., Cuba Transnational (University Press of Florida, 2005), and “Did Nobody Pass the Girls the Guitar? Queer Appropriations in Contemporary Cuban Popular Song,” Journal of Popular Music 18/2 (2006). She is currently preparing a book manuscript on the transnationalization of contemporary Cuban music. Dr. Thomas teaches courses on Women and Music, Gender and Music Video, Cuban Music, and Contemporary Trends and Controversies in Musicology. |
