STEERING COMMITTEE
STEVEN VANDE MOORTELE (Director)
Professor, Music Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theories of musical form; analysis of instrumental music from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century; Richard Wagner; Arnold Schoenberg.
CONTACT: steven.vandemoortele@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://discover.research.utoronto.ca/23817-steven-vande-moortele/about
SARAH GUTSCHE-MILLER
Associate Professor, Musicology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Ballet, Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture, Women in the Arts, Carl Nielsen
CONTACT: sarah.gutsche.miller@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://music.utoronto.ca/our-people.php?fid=21
SHERRY LEE
Associate Professor, Musicology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: music philosophy and aesthetics, music and modernity, sound studies, music and environment, opera and music drama
CONTACT: sherry.lee@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: http://individual.utoronto.ca/lee_sherry
ELLEN LOCKHART
Associate Professor, Musicology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: epistemology of the senses; history of science; aesthetics; opera and its staging; critical philology; nineteenth-century materialities; history of nature
CONTACT: ellen.lockhart@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://music.utoronto.ca/our-people.php?fid=255
RYAN MCCLELLAND
Professor, Music Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theories of rhythm and meter; Schenkerian theory; analysis and performance; Johannes Brahms
CONTACT: ryan.mcclelland@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://music.utoronto.ca/our-people.php?fid=91
FACULTY MEMBERS
DAPHNE TAN
Associate Professor, Music Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS: History of theory, History of psychology, Philosophical idealism, Music perception and cognition, Ernst Kurth, Viktor Zuckerkandl
CONTACT: daphne.tan@utoronto.ca
PERSONAL WEB PAGE: https://individual.utoronto.ca/daphnetan
STUDENT MEMBERS
EMILY MACCALLUM
PhD Candidate, Musicology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: music and environment; landscape; historical soundscapes; program music
CONTACT: em.maccallum@mail.utoronto.ca
JACOB BURTENSHAW
PhD Student, Musicology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: music and philosophy in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries
CONTACT: jacob.burtenshaw@mail.utoronto.ca
TEGAN RIDGE
PhD Student, Musicology
RESEARCH INTERESTS: German-language repertoires, representations of horror and the g/Gothic, new materialisms
CONTACT: tegan.ridge@mail.utoronto.ca
ELWYN ROWLANDS
PhD Student, Music Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS: nineteenth-century form, choreomusicology, and ballet history
CONTACT: elwyn.rowlands@mail.utoronto.ca
DARIA MICHIRIN
PhD Student, Music Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS: nineteenth-century form, opera, Wagner
CONTACT: daria.michirin@mail.utoronto.ca
KRISTEN WHITTLE
MA Student, Music Theory
RESEARCH INTERESTS: intersections between music and literature; domestic music and its representations in fiction and the press
CONTACT: kristen.whittle@utoronto.ca
ALUMNI
EMMA SOLDAAT
PhD Music Theory, 2025; Postdoctoral Researcher, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mahler, philosophy, literary theory, form, and fin-de-siècle Vienna
DISSERTATION: Memory of Formal Function in the Symphonies of Gustav Mahler
CALEB LABBE PHELAN
PhD Musicology, 2025
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Virtuosity and gesture, nineteenth-century keyboard music, travel literature, philosophy and literary aesthetics, the music of Franz Liszt
DISSERTATION: Performance as Translation: Virtuosity in Musical Modernity
MATTHEW POON
PhD Music Theory, 2022; Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Eau Claire
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Robert Schumann’s symphonic music; form-functional theory; music perception
DISSERTATION: Formal Functions in Robert Schumann’s Orchestral Sonata Forms
ELIZABETH FOX
PhD Music Theory, 2021; Legal practicioner
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Virtuosity, Concerto, Formal functions, Music and romantic literary theory
DISSERTATION WORKING TITLE: Deciphering the Arabesque: Genre Mixture and Formal Digression in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto
LINDSAY JONES
PhD Musicology 2020; Project & Administrative Coordinator, Graduate Education, University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS: 19th-century guitarist-composers, folk music, variation form, the music of Johannes Brahms
DISSERTATION: Music by the Ducat: Giuliani’s Guitar and Vienna’s Musical Markets, 1806–1819
DAN DEUTSCH
PhD Music Theory, 2018; Lecturer, University of Haifa
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Gustav Mahler, Formenlehre, Song Analysis, Fin-de-siècle Vienna, Jewish Studies
DISSERTATION: Music as “Minor Literature”: Musical Syntax and Form in Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde
CAITLIN MARTINKUS
PhD Music Theory, 2017; Adjunct Lecturer, Penn State University
RESEARCH INTERESTS: theories of musical form; nineteenth-century musical form; Schubert; improvisation as performance and pedagogy
DISSERTATION: The Urge to Vary: Schubert’s Variation Practice from Schubertiades to Sonata For