Bryan Gilliam
| Title: | Frances Hill Fox Professor in Humanities |
| Office Location: | 073 Mary Duke Biddle |
| Office Phone: | +1 919 660 3340 |
| Email Address: | bgilliam@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD Harvard University, 1984
- Honors in Music History University of Cincinnati, 1975
Research Interests
Ph.D., Harvard University. Author of books and articles on late 19th-and early 20th-century German music. Specialties include Richard Strauss, Anton Bruckner, German opera, fin-de-siècle Vienna, film music, and American popular song.
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, September 2005
- Frances Hill Fox Professorship in Humanities, September 2005
- 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
Recent Professional Work:
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- B. Gilliam. Rounding Wagner's Mountain: Richard Strauss and Modern German Opera. Cambridge University Press, 2008 . (Under contract)
- B. Gilliam. ""Night and Day, Moon and Stars: Now Voyager and its Music"." untitled book (2008). In progress; book on Hollywood film music
- B. Gilliam. "Strauss and the Sexual Body: The Erotics of Humor, Philosophy, and Ego-Assertion." The Richard Strauss Companion 2007. [author's comments]
- B. Gilliam. "La música surt de mi!" La dansa i la dissolució d'Elektra. Fall 2007 .
- B. Gilliam. Elektra. Fall 2007 .