About
Nina Goodman is PhD Candidate in Music at the University of Chicago. Currently, she pursues sensory ethnographies and histories of (East/West) Germany and (North/South) Korea since the Cold War. She comparatively examines how people—by means of music and sound—imagine and interpret their (political) pasts, realities, and futures, all fundamentally shaped by the division and reunification of their country.
Importantly, Nina aims to become a musicologist in the holistic sense of the word, remaining sensitive and receptive to the affordances and limitations of our disciplinary paradigms (conceived as music theory, music history, ethnomusicology, sound studies, etc.).
Before her time at the University of Chicago, Nina earned a BA in Data Science and Music at Wellesley College. Her thesis project involved computational analyses of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 129 (1916), as well as a historical evaluation of the little-studied composer.
Teaching Experience
- Introduction to World Music (CA, Autumn 2024)
- Introduction to Western Art Music (CA, Spring 2025)
- Introduction to Analysis and Criticism (CA, Autumn 2025)