Susan McClary

Susan McClary (Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University; Distinguished Professor Emerita, UCLA) specializes in the cultural criticism of music. Her books include Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality ; Georges Bizet: Carmen ; Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form ; Modal Subjectivities: Renaissance Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal ; Reading Music; Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music ; Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth...See more

Susan McClary (Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, Case Western Reserve University; Distinguished Professor Emerita, UCLA) specializes in the cultural criticism of music. Her books include Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality ; Georges Bizet: Carmen ; Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form ; Modal Subjectivities: Renaissance Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal ; Reading Music; Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music ; Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Expressive Culture ; The Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music . She previously taught at University of Minnesota, McGill, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. McClary received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship in 1995, and her work has been translated into at least twenty languages. See less