Dr Shaena Weitz
BM, MM, PhD
Expertise
I study music and culture in Europe around the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, with particular focus on keyboard music in France, 19th-C music journalism as media, history of celebrity, publicity, attention.
Current positions
Honorary Research Associate
Department of Music
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Biography
I study music, media, and culture of the long nineteenth century, particularly in France, with specific interests music journalism and historical media studies, virtuosity and celebrity, and historical creative practices. My publications have appeared in The Musical Quarterly, Music & Letters, 19th-Century Music, and the collections Piano Culture in 19th-Century Paris and Berlioz and his World (2024). I am the 2023 Royal Music Association Jerome Roche Prize winner, as well as the recipient of the 2023 Music & Letters Westrup Prize, and the 2020 Société des Dix-Neuviémistes SDN Publication Prize. My work has been supported by the British Academy though a Newton International Fellowship, the American Musicological Society, the Royal Musical Association, and CUNY. My current project, Rescinding Genius, examines fame and publicity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.