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 Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and the Sorbonne. 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. In 2009-10, she is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin (Institue for Advanced Studies). 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. From 2011-13, Annegret Fauser will be editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society.

Annegret Fauser's research focuses on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in particularly that of France and the United States. 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), and with Mark Everist a collection of essays on French musical theater (2009). Currently she is editing the correspondence between Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland, and writing a monograph on music in the United States during World War II. In September 2008, she presented aspects of this new research project in the inaugural year of the joint lecture series of the Library of Congress and the American Musicological Society. Click here to see the webcast.

Updated 9/15/2009