Laurie Matheson is the director of the University of Illinois Press. Her areas of acquisition include the subjects of Music, Dance, and Folklore. If you’re working on a book project, please feel free to reach out to her during the conference here.

Click here to read an interview with Laurie Matheson.

American Music welcomes incoming editor Nancy Yunhwa Rao. Dr. Rao is Professor of Music and Head of Music Theory at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Her research spans gender and music, sketch studies, music modernism, cultural fusion in music, racial representations, and the music history of early Chinese Americans. As editor, she seeks submissions that employ interdisciplinary and innovative methodologies in the study of music in the Americas, especially when addressing underrepresented topics and perspectives. See the American Music submission guidelines for a list of potential themes and topics of interest.

Dr. Rao can be reached here.

International in scope, this open-ended series features short, readable books about women composers. These volumes represent the broadest possible spectrum of music that women have created, in all styles and genres from classical to popular to traditional, from early to contemporary, from secular to sacred, from private to public, from the great range of regional, social, ethnic, and other communities that have shaped their experience. Taken together, the Women Composers books aim to answer the question, What music have women created, and why and how and with what result?