Dissertation Colloquium: Rachel Rosenman

Rachel Rosenman presents Towards an Intermedial Poetics of Song: Studies in Twentieth-Century French Mélodie.

Rachel's dissertation research focuses on French art song (mélodie) around the turn of the twentieth century, advocating for an analytical approach to song grounded in the concept of intermediality: interrelations between expressive media. Specifically, her thesis analyzes mélodies by the composers Erik Satie, Mel Bonis, and Francis Poulenc as examples of experiments with the possibilities of art song through the various ways they bring together multiple expressive media forms, including poetry, music, visual art, and spiritual philosophy.

This event will also be livestreamed on Zoom.