Dr. Barbara Dietlinger

Assistant Professor

Bio

Barbara Dietlinger is Assistant Professor of Musicology at USM’s School of Music. Prior to her faculty appointment at USM, she was a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago (2021-22). She received her PhD in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 2021. In addition, she holds two Magister Artium degrees in Musicology and Slavic Philology from the University of Munich, Germany.

Barbara specializes in the music and sound world of the early modern period. Her research focuses on the interplay of music, visual art, and print culture in memory formation in Saxony, Bohemia, and the Low Countries. Her article “The Composer’s Influence on the Renarration of History: Heinrich Schütz’s ‘Nun danket alle Gott,’ SWV 418,” was published in the 2019 Schütz-Jahrbuch. Additionally, she writes about opera and media. Her current project investigates the unlikely collaboration of West German and Czechoslovakian TV channels in producing TV operas and oratorios.

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