Faculty

Berthold Hoeckner, Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities, is a music historian specializing in 19th- and 20th-century music. Research interests include aesthetics, Adorno, music and literature, music and visual culture, and the psychology and neuroscience of music. Awards and fellowships include the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society (1998), a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2001/2), and a Mellon New Directions Fellowship (2006/7). His book Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment was published by Princeton University Press in 2002. Ph.D., Cornell, 1994; at Chicago since 1994.

Office: Goodspeed 203
Phone: (773) 702-7629
E-mail: bhoeckne@uchicago.edu