Kimberlyn Montford, Assistant Professor of Music History

Ph.D., Rutgers University.
M.M., Northwestern University
B.M., Westminster Choir College

Dr. Montford teaches Music Appreciation, Music History, History of Opera, African-American Music, and Music and Identity in Contemporary America. In addition to articles on Baroque sacred music and African-American music, her research interests include gender studies and film music aesthetics. She has presented her work at conferences of the International Musicological Society, the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Renaissance Society of America, Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, and the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, and has articles published in the International Dictionary of Black Composers and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music. Her most recent research is on the spiritual madrigals of the seventeenth-century Roman composer Paolo Quagliati.