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Curriculum Vitae

Bryan Gilliam

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067 Mary Duke Biddle
Durham, NC 27708

(919) 660-3321 (office)

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Education

PhD	Harvard University	1984
Honors in Music History	University of Cincinnati	1975

Areas of Research: German Opera, Vienna, Wagner, Strauss, and 19th & 20th Century

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities, 2004 - present; Professor, 1999 - present; Associate Professor, 1993 - 1999; Assistant Professor, 1986 - 1993

Colby College: Assistant Professor, Music, 1983 - 1986

Harvard University: Teaching Fellow, 1977 - 1981

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Invited to give Keynote Address at Oxford University, June, 2007
Stanford University Alexander Lecture, January, 2006
American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, 2006-2007
Bass Society of Fellows Award
Frances Hill Fox Professorship in Humanities
Kurt Weill Foundation Research Grant, 1992
Goethe Institut (Atlanta) Foundation Grant, March, 1990
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Grant, September, 1990
Josiah Charles Trent Foundation Grant, February, 1990
National Endowment for the Humanities Conference Grant, September 1989
International Research Exchange (IREX) Travel Grant, 1989
Duke University Research Council Travel Grant, 1988
Duke University Research Council Grant, July 1987
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Music, 1987-1988
Colby College Humanites Research Award, December 1983
Wesley Wyman Research Award, 1982
Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst Research Grant, January 1981
Wesley Wyman Research Award, May 1980
Harvard GSAS Scholarship, 1976 - 1981

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Goethe, Wagner, and the Idea of German Culture, German Embassy (Washington, DC), October 2010; Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Aesthetics of Humor, Philosphy, and Ego Assertion, American Musicological Society (Indianapolis), November , 2010; Lustmord in Weimar-Era Opera, Bard Music Festival, August 2010; Schumann, Byron, and Manfred, Lincoln Center (Mostly Mozart Schumann Celebration), August 2010; Same, U. of Southern California, March 2007; Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion, U.C. Davis, March 2007; Dirty Dancing: Strauss, 'Redemption,' and the Affirmation of the Body, Oxford University, June 2007; Participated on an AMS panel (2003) on "The Search for Academic Employment", AMS, Houston, 15 November 2003; 'Ariadne auf Naxos,' 'Daphne,' und das Problem der Verwandlung, Universität Würzburg, Institut für Musikwissenschat, 2002; Between Resignation and Hope: The Late Strauss, Ojai Music Festival Symposium on "The Idea of Late Style", 2002; Strauss's "Crazy Jewish Girl:" Salome and fin-de-siècle Modernism, University of Toronto, 2002; Politics and the Spirit: R. Strauss and the National Socislist Problem, Eastman School of Music, 2000; Sound, Image, Music: Hollywood Film Music, Lecture to the Duke University Board of Trsutees, 2000; The String Quartet and its Changing Audience, Johns Hopkins University ("Rediscovering the String Quartet), 2000; "Fiede im Innern:" Die innere und äussere Persönlichkeit des R. Strauss um die Mitte der dreissiger Jahre, University of Munich ("Richard Strauss und die Moderne"), 1999; Elektras Tanz und Auflösung, Autrian Society for Music, Vienna, 1999; From Hollywood to Berlin: The Influence of American Film on Weimar Music Theater, Humboldt Unversity, Berlin ("Kurt Weill und Amerikanismus"), 1999; Strauss's Inner and Outer Worlds in the 1930s, York University, Toronto ("Music and Naziism"), 1999; Variations on an Enigma: R. Strauss 50 Years after his Death, Inaugural Erich Leinsdorf Memorial Lecture (NY Phil.), 1999; Lectures for the Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria, 2001-2002

Doctoral Theses Directed: Lily Hirsch, Imagining "Jewish Music" in Nazi Germany: The Berlin Jüdischer Kulturbund and Musical Politics, 1933-41, (2006); Christina Gier, Intertextuality in Music and Gender Ideology in Alban Berg's Modernist Aesthetic, (2003); Graham Hunt, Ever New Formal Structure; Wagner's Lohengrin, (2001); Joy Calico, The Politics of Opera in the GDR, (1999); Neil Lerner, The Classical Documentary Score in American Films of Persuasion: Contexts and Case Studies, (1997); Camille Crittenden, Viennese Musical Life and the Operettas of Johann Strauss, (1997); Charles Youmans, (1992)

Publications (listed separately)

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