Edward Hafer

Assistant Professor of Musicology

Ph.D., University of Illinois
M.M., University of Illinois
B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Edward Hafer, Assistant Professor of Music History, holds a B.A. in Music History and Literature from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the M.M. and Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has had additional training at Millersville University (PA); Goethe Institutes in Düsseldorf and Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany; and he has participated in a seminar on the works of Richard Wagner at the University of Bayreuth. His teachers have included William Kinderman, Alexander Ringer, John Hill, and Bruno Nettl.

Hafer’s research interests lie in the music and aesthetics of the nineteenth century. His dissertation addresses the role of the Wanderer in the music of Franz Schubert and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich. He has presented research on Wagner, Schubert, and Music & Painting.