Michael Puri

Education: Ph.D. and M.Phil in music theory, Yale University; Lehr- and Konzertdiplom in piano performance, Music Academy of Basel (Switzerland); B.A. in Music and Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.

Research Interests: Theory and analysis, critical theory, hermeneutics, Wagner, Ravel, 19th- and 20th-century French classical music.

Representative publications include “Dandy, Interrupted: Sublimation, Repression, and Self-Portraiture in Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé” in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (60/2), and “The Ecstasy and the Agony: Exploring the Nexus of Music and Message in the Act III Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” in 19th-Century Music (25/2-3). Review-essays and reviews have appeared in JAMS, Music & Letters, and Notes, while additional articles are forthcoming in Music Analysis and two edited collections on Ravel. His book, Decadent Dialectics: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire in the Music of Maurice Ravel, is forthcoming in 2010 from Oxford University Press. He has received national and international fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the Javits Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and is the recipient of the 2008 Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society for the best article written by a junior musicologist in 2007.