Lloyd International Honors College

Dr. Elizabeth L. Keathley

Music

Dr. Elizabeth L. Keathley is a musicologist with faculty appointments in the School of Music and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her research centers on the “others” of musical modernism and modernity with a focus on music of the early twentieth century. Dr. Keathley was award a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 2012–13 for the book project The Feminine Face of Musical Modernism: Women Collaborators in Arnold Schoenberg’s Modern Music Cultures (forthcoming). She translated and edited Schoenberg’s Correspondence with Alma Mahler (Oxford, 2017), and her published articles include such topics as Leonard Bernstein’s short opera Trouble in Tahiti, the Polish-French singer Marya Freund’s interpretations of Pierrot lunaire, and Eminem’s “murder ballads.” Dr. Keathley was awarded the WGS Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grant and the UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award both in 2005. Courses she has taught for the Honors College include “Music and Society” and “Genius and Gender.” Dr. Keathley has been a Lloyd International Honors College Faculty Fellow since 2012.