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Annegret Fauser joined UNC-Chapel Hill in July 2001. She was born in Germany, lived in Ghana and Germany, and studied musicology, art history and philosophy at the University of Bonn, the Sorbonne and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. She received her PhD at the University of Bonn in 1992. She was "chercheur invité" at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris (1992–93), Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia (2001), held a Pardue Fellowship at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC (2004) and has been made a Principal Fellow of the University of Melbourne in 2007. Before joining the faculty at UNC, she taught musicology at the Université François Rabelais in Tours, Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and City University, London.

Annegret Fauser's research focuses on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in particularly that of France. She has published on French song and opera, French women composers, exoticism, nationalism, reception history and cultural transfer. Her publications include a book on French orchestral song (1994), a monograph on the roles of music during the 1889 World Fair in Paris (2005), and an edition of reviews of the first performance of Jules Massenet's opera Esclarmonde (2001); she co-edited, with Manuela Schwartz, a major publication on Wagnerism in France (1999). Currently, she is writing a monograph on music in the United States during World War II and editing the correspondence between Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland.

Annegret Fauser was President of the South-East Chapter of the American Musicological Society (2003–05). She was elected a member of Council of the American Musicological Society.She served as a member of the Committee for the Status of Women in the American Musicological Society from 1996 to 1999. From 2000 to 2001, she served as chair of Proceedings Committee of the Royal Musical Association (UK). She is a member of the editorial board of Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture since 1996, served on the editorial board of Acta Musicologica from 1999 to 2001, and is a member of the advisorial board of Nineteenth-Century Music Review since 2002 and the comité de lecture of the Revue de Musicologie since 2005.

Updated 5/8/2008