Heidi Jensen

Education

• PhD: Musicology with Cognates in Anthropology and Philosophy, The University of Florida, 2022
• Dual MM: Music History and Literature and Guitar Performance, The University of New Mexico, 2015
• BA: Anthropology with Minor in Philosophy, The University of Rochester, 2003

Specialties / Areas of Interest

• Intersections of music and philosophy
• Ecomusicology
• Sound Studies
• Transmedia song and digital histories
• Junctures of technology and aesthetics
• Popular music and commercial culture as historical narrative

Courses Taught

• Music History I&II
• Sound Gathering
• Cultural Competencies
• Alfred Popular Music Ensemble
• Musical Reorientations
• Musical Infrastructures
• Introduction to Musicology and Ethnomusicology
• Music Theory I&II
• First-Year Experience

Research, Publications, & Presentations

Research & Publications

• Book Proposal: “Three Women: Piracy, Sovereignty, and the Sublimity of Song” (Book Project)
• Panel Chair, “Envisioning Climate Justice Through Folk Music,” at “Music, Sound, and Climate Justice Conversations 2022” 11/9/22
• “Soundings” at “Aesthetics and Evidence Conference” hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies and the UF Anthropology Department 2022
• Committee Member for “Creative Resilience Conference: Artistic Expression and Community Throughout COVID-19 2021
• “Ringing Out and Zooming In: The Collapse of Productive and Reproductive Labor” presenter/panelist American Musicological Society National Conference, Ecocriticism Study Group (Talk and Podcast) 2020
• “Gestures of Criminality and the Gist of Violence: Gestus in ‘Die Moritat vom Mackie Messer’” presenter, GAMuT Graduate Student Conference, University of North Texas 2020
• “‘You sleep, we do the work for you.’ Kurt Weill’s Surreal ‘Song of The Guns’” UF Student Society for Musicology Mini Conference 2019
• “Gestures of Criminality and the Gist of Violence: Gestus in ‘Die Moritat vom Mackie Messer’” Southern Graduate Research Symposium 2019
• Pre-Opera Lecture, “Engleburt Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel” Phillips Performing Arts Center 2018
• Presenter, “The Liminal Ideal and Liminoid Reality of Wagner's Bayreuth” American Musicological Society, Capitol Chapter Conference 2016