Catherine Cole
Assistant Professor, Music History

Music & Communication Building, Room 316
216. 687-2039
c.cole1@csuohio.edu

On the faculty of Cleveland State University since 2004, Catherine Cole teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music history and music appreciation. She received the Ph.D. from University of Chicago in musicology in 2003, the M.A. in ethnomusicology from University of Chicago in 1995, and the B.A. in music from Brown University in 1992. Her research specialty is in music from 1700-1900, with a focus on French opera, aesthetics, and social change during the late eighteenth century. Dr. Cole has presented her work at interdisciplinary and musicological conferences in the United States , Europe, and Canada . Most recently, she participated in the 2005 national conference of the American Musicological Society as part of the panels “Performance, Politics, and the Problem of ‘Italian Style’ in Old Regime France ” and “A Sense of Place: Music and Regional Environments, Musicology and Ecocriticism.” She has published an article in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. Recent support for her work has come from a Fulbright grant for research in Paris (2001-2) and a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend (2004). Before arriving in Cleveland , Dr. Cole was on the faculty of the University of Iowa .