Associate Professor - Music History and Literature
Music Department Chair
Contact Information
Tyler Hall 107
[email protected]
Office hours
M/W 11:30-12:30 or by appointment
Juliet Forshaw is a music history scholar and songwriter who teaches courses in classical music, opera, popular music, heavy metal, and songwriting. She also performs original music with her acoustic singer-songwriter duo, Avalon, and three-piece band, The Fire Within. She recently released her third album, The Fire Within.
Member: American Musicological Society
Publications
"Russian Opera Rebels: Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, Nikolai Figner, and the Rise of the Tenor Antihero," in Masculinity in Opera: Gender, History, and New Musicology, ed. Philip Purvis (New York: Routledge, 2013).
"Metal in Three Modes of Enmity: Political, Musical, Cosmic" in Current Musicology, issue 91 (Spring 2011).
Avalon, Avalon (2017)
Avalon, My Evil Plan (2020)
The Fire Within, The Fire Within (2024)
"Osip Petrov, Anna Vorobyova, and the Development of Low-Voiced Character Types in Nineteenth-Century Russian Opera," Cambridge Opera Journal, vol. 28, no. 1 (March, 2016), 37-77
Education
B.A.: Music, Princeton University;
Ph.D.: Historical Musicology, Columbia University
Classes Taught
MUS 112: Introduction to Music Literature
MUS 117: Introduction to Music Listening Through Jazz, Rock, and Popular Music MUS 215: Art of Songwriting
MUS 310-311: Music History Survey
MUS 307: Opera
MUS 318: Heavy Metal