About
Michèle Duguay (she/her) is a Lecturer on Music at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intersection of popular music analysis and gender studies, the construction of virtual space in recorded popular music, voice studies, and gesture in contemporary piano music.
Her work has been published in Music Theory Online, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Theory and Practice. Her dissertation, “Gendering the Virtual Space: Sonic Femininities and Masculinities in Contemporary Top 40 Music,” has been awarded the SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship by the Society for Music Theory.
In 2019, Michèle received the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State (MTSNYS), the Arthur J. Komar Award from Music Theory Midwest (MTMW), and a doctoral grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
She received a Ph.D. in music theory from the CUNY Graduate Center, where she also completed a Certificate Program in Women’s Studies, an M.A. in music theory from McGill University, and a B.Mus. from the University of Ottawa. Michèle is a former faculty member at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and has taught music theory at the City College of New York and Lehman College.
Michèle is a co-founder of the Engaged Music Theory working group.
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