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Robert Kendrick

Appointment:

Department Chair
Professor of Music

Education:

Ph.D., New York University

Contact:

Office: Goodspeed 313
Phone: (773) 702-8500
Email: rkendric@uchicago.edu

Robert Kendrick works largely in early modern music and culture, with additional interests in Latin American music, musical and visual culture, historical anthropology, and early modern literature. He is currently at work on a book project on music and ritual in early modern Catholicism, and recently has given papers on 17th-century opera, male monks and music, and the historiography of 17th-century sacred music. He is also one of the co-editors of the forthcoming collected works of Alessandro Grandi. Graduate seminar topics have included: ‘Senecan Drama, Stoicism, and Baroque Opera’ (co-taught); ‘Music at Habsburg Courts’; ‘Issues in Monteverdi’s [partly] Incoronazione di Poppea’; ‘Litanies, 1550-1770’; ‘The Sound of Sight in Early Modern Europe’, and others, and he has taught on the Rome program of the undergraduate Civilization Core. His books are The Sound of Milan, 1580-1650 (2002) and Celestial Sirens (1996) and he has edited the motets of Chiara Margarita Cozzolani for A-R Editions (1998). At Chicago he is also chair of the Committee on the History of Culture, and affiliated faculty for the Romance Language Department (Italian, French, Spanish, Catalan), the Center for Gender Studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies. As of November 2008 he will be the chair of the AMS Publications Committee, and he will return to chairing the Department in 2009. He was named a member of Milan’s Accademia di S. Carlo in 2005. Kendrick received his Ph.D. (musicology) and M.A. (ethnomusicology) from New York University, his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, and he is a former Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.