Morgan Rich, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Music History and Literature, The University of Florida, 2016
• M.M., Musicology, Bowling Green State University, 2008
• B.S., Music History and Literature, Indiana State University, 2006

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Music History, Texas A&M-Commerce, 2019-Present
• Adjunct Lecturer, General Humanities, University of Florida, 2018-2019
• Adjunct Lecturer, Strategic Communications and Technical Writing, University of Florida, 2018-2019
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities at Research Institutes in Germany and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung, 2017–2018
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Musicology, University of Florida, 2016–2017

Awards and Honors

• University of Florida Graduate School Dissertation Award, 2016
• Rey Longyear Student Paper Award, American Musicological Society South-Central Chapter, 2016
• Student Creative Research Award, University of Florida Best of School Award, 2014
• Madelyn Lockhart and Academic Association of University Women Emerging Scholar Award, 2014
• The Madelyn M. Lockhart Graduate Student and Faculty Fellowship, University of Florida, 2013
• Graduate School Doctoral Research Travel Award, University of Florida, 2013
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Germany, 2012
• Anthony Jung Award for Best Graduate Student Paper at the European Studies, 2012
• Mr. and Mrs. John V. D’Albora, Jr. Scholarship, University of Florida, 2012
• Grinter Fellow, University of Florida, 2009-2012
• Richard S. James Memorial Scholarship, Bowling Green State University, 2008

Professional Organizations

• American Musicological Society
• Music and Philosophy Study Group
• Austrian Studies Association
• Council for European Studies
• German Studies Association

Featured Courses

MUS 1308 US Introduction Music Literature Majors or Non-Major
MUS 324 Global Music History II
MUS 523 Music of the Classic Era

Selected Publications

• Chapter. “Theodor Adorno’s Musical Monographs: Challenging the Genre and Creating Historical Narratives” in Music Criticism 1900–1950, edited by Jordi Ballester and Gérman Gan Quesada, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2018.
• Textbook Article. “Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Suite, op. 25” in A-R Online Music Anthology.
• DVD review. “Barbara Hannigan: Concert Documentary by Barbara Hannigan, and: Lulu by Alban Berg,” MLA Notes 72, no. 3, March 2016.
• CD review. “Eleanor Cory: ‘Chasing Time’” Albany Records Troy 1031 (2008), in International Alliance for Women in Music Journal 15, no. 1, 2009.

Selected Publications In Progress

• Book, Theodor Adorno’s Vienna: Musical Context for Philosophical Thought
• Book, Hybrid Thinking in Sound: Manfred Stahnke’s Aesthetic, Music, and Life. Co-authored with Navid Bargrizan.
• Article, Musical Philosophy: Alban Berg, Theodor Adorno, and the Formulation of Negative Dialectics” (under review)
• Article, “Metaphors of Light in Musical Form and Gestures: Analyzing Kaija Saariaho’s Notes on Light”
• Article ,“Negative Dialectics and Adorno’s Philosophy of New Music”