Julia J. Chybowski
Professor of Music, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
800 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh, WI 54901
chybowsj@uwosh.edu
Education
Ph.D., Musicology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008)
Dissertation: “Developing American Taste: A Cultural History of the Early-Twentieth-Century Music Appreciation Movement,” advised by Professor Pamela Potter in conjunction with Professors Susan C. Cook, David Crook, Julia E. Koza, and Charles Dill
M.A., Music History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002)
Thesis: “Popularizing Classical Music and Developing American Taste: The Role of 1920s Music Appreciation Textbooks,” advised by Professor David Crook
B.A., Music Performance & English (with Honors) University of Wisconsin-Madison (1999)
Senior Thesis: “Into History, Myth, and the Poem: Ensuring a Space for the Irish Woman Poet,” advised by Professor Kelly Cherry
Employment
Professor, Music Department University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (2021-present)
Associate Professor, Music Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (2014-2021)
Assistant Professor, Music Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (Fall 2011-2015)
Lecturer, UW-Oshkosh (Fall 2008-Spring 2011)
Lecturer, School of Music, UW-Madison (Fall 2007)
Teaching Assistant, UW-Madison (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)
Lecturer, Division of Continuing Studies, UW-Madison (Fall 2000-Spring 2002)
Harp Program Director, Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (1998-2005)
Associate Program Director, Madison Early Music Festival (2001-2005)
Freelance music teacher and musician (1996-2008)
Teaching Experiences
Courses Taught: Music History
Special Topics in Music History: Exoticism
Special Topics in Music History: Music and Migration
Special Topics in Music History: Historical Perspectives on Recorded Sound
Special Topics in Music History: Music Technology in American Life
Special Topics in Music History: Dangerous Music
Special Topics in Music History: Opera in America
Survey of Music History I: Ancient to Classical
Survey of Music History II: Romantic to 21st Century
Introduction to Global Musics
First Year Seminar for Honors Students: Music and Politics of Nineteenth-Century America
General Education: Music and American Cultural Identities
General Education: Black Music and American Culture
General Education: Music and Equal Rights Campaigns in the U.S.
General Education: Country Music and American Culture
Courses Taught: Instrumental
University-level applied lessons at UW-Oshkosh (2012-2015)
Private music lessons (1997-present)
Harp classes: Madison Early Music Festival (2001-2012) and Division of Continuing Studies, UW-Madison (2000-2002)
Chamber Music and Sectional Coaching: Summer Music Clinic (grades 6-12), UW-Madison (1999-2003) and Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (1998-2005)
Professional Development Related to Teaching
UWO Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Workshop: “Chat GPT: Friend or Foe?: Exploring the Future of AI-Text Generators in Higher Education” (March 13, 2023)
UWO Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Workshop: Accessibility and Universal Design: Practical Course Design for All Learners (April 27, 2022)
College Music Society, Cultural Inclusion Workshop: “Decentering Western Classical Music: Radical Curricular Redesign for the Musicology Classroom” (December 12, 2021).
UW-System Workshop: Equity in the College Classroom (October 2021)
Provost’s Summit on Teaching (annually, 2008-2021)
Online Teaching Professional Development Program (Summer 2020)
Best Practice Certificate in Specifications Grading, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (Spring 2018)
Member and discussion leader for CETL book dialog for Linda. B. Nilson, Specifications Grading (2018)
Member and discussion leader for CETL book dialog about Jose Antonio Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning (2014)
Member and discussion leader for CETL book dialog about Ken Bain, What the Best College Students Do (2013)
Member and discussion leader for CETL book dialog about Judith Grappa, How Professors Think (2010)
Presenter, “Teaching Global Musics and Cultures in the General Curriculum,” UW-System President’s Summit on Excellence in Teaching & Learning (April 2010)
Best Practice Certificate, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (Fall 2010)
Member and discussion leader for CETL book dialog about Michelle Lamont, Rethinking Faculty Work (2009)
Research
Publications
“Book Review of Songs of Slavery and Emancipation by Mat Callahan,” Journal of the Society for American Music (forthcoming 2025).
“Joshua McCarter Simpson’s Songs and Mid-Nineteenth Century Antislavery Activism,” Journal of the Society for American Music 18 (2024): 108–127.
“The Phonograph and Music Appreciation in Early 20th-Century America” in Milestones in Music Education, edited by Clint Randles (Routledge University Press, 2023).
“Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield’s Mid-to-Late Career, Philanthropy, and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America,” American Music 40: 2 (Summer 2022): 211-244.
“Blackface Minstrelsy and the Reception of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,” Journal of the Society for American Music 15:3 (2021).
“Book Review Essay for Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement, by Naomi André,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 73: 2 (Fall 2020).
“Jenny Lind and the Making of Mainstream American Popular Music,” Open Access Musicology (Fall 2020).
“Book Review Essay of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word by Marian Wilson Kimber” Journal of the Society for American Music 13: 2 (2019).
“Selling Musical Taste in Early-Twentieth-century America: Frances E. Clark and the Business of Music Appreciation,” Journal of Historical Research in Music Education 38:2 (2017).
“Becoming the ‘Black Swan’ in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America: Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield’s Early Life and Debut Concert Tour,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 67:1 (Spring 2014).
“Opera in America” in Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped our Culture, ed. Jacqueline Edmondson (ABC-CILO Publishers, 2013).
“Listening for German-ness: Book Reviews of Barbara Lorenzkowski’s Sounds of Ethnicity and Nancy Newman’s Good Music for a Free People,” Journal of American Ethnic History 32:4 (Summer 2013).
“German-ness” of the American Symphony: A Study of Musical Diplomacy,” Book Review for Max Kade Institute for German American Studies Newsletter 20:1 (Winter 2011).
“Elizabeth T. Greenfield,” Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2010).
“The ‘Black Swan’ in England: Abolition and the Reception of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,” American Music Research Journal 14 (2004): 7-25.
Peer-Reviewed and Invited Presentations
“The Luca Family Singers in Antebellum America” presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (November 14, 2024).
“Joshua Simpson’s Songs as Black Musical Activism in Antebellum America,” presented to University of Iowa Graduate School Colloquium (April 28, 2023)
“Sentimentality and Anti-Slavery Activism in Joshua Simpson’s Songs,” presented to the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music (March 12, 2022).
“Intertextuality in Joshua Simpson’s Original Anti-Slavery Songs and the Expanding Abolition Movement in 1850s America” presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (November 2020).
“Blackface Minstrelsy and the Black Swan” presented to the Annual National Meeting of the American Musicological Society (November 12, 2015).
Research lecture at Bucknell University, Sponsored by the Griot Institute for African and Africana Studies and the Department of Music (October 22, 2015).
“Frances Elliott Clark and the Business of ‘Music Appreciation’ in America,” presented to Annual National Meeting of the Society for American Music (March 9, 2014).
“From Patronized to Patron: Renewing the Biography of Vocalist Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,” presented at Feminist Theory and Music Conference, Hamilton College, New York (August 3, 2013).
African American Studies Program Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (November 15, 2012).
“The Music Course in General Education: Eliciting Student Enthusiasm and Investment,” panelist at Annual National Meeting of the American Musicological Society in New Orleans, Louisiana (November 2, 2012).
Invited guest lecture for course: “Music of Black Americans on the World Stage,” University of California-Berkeley, via video chat with class of students who had read my published work (February 3, 2012).
“Research-Oriented Music History Course,” presented at American Musicological Society’s Teaching Music History Day at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte (March 19, 2011).
“Vocalist Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield as the “Black Swan,” invited guest scholar, UW-Madison School of Music Colloquium Series (April 1, 2011).
“Race and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Music,” invited public lecture, Monterey Peninsula College, University of California System (January 22, 2010).
“Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and Philadelphia Musical Culture,” scholar in residence lecture, Library Company of Philadelphia (June 17, 2010).
“The ‘Black Swan’ in America: A Mid-Nineteenth Century Reception Study of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,” presented at Annual National Meeting of the Society for American Music in Denver, Colorado (March 20, 2009).
“The ‘Black Swan’ in America: A Mid-Nineteenth Century Reception Study of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield,” presented at Annual National Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November 13, 2009).
“Translating ‘The Black Swan:’ Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield’s Mid-19th Century Musical Career and Reception,” presented at Feminist Theory in Music 9 Conference at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (June 6-10, 2007).
“Performing as the ‘Black Swan:’ Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield’s Mid-19th Century Musical Career and Reception,” presented at Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (February 23, 2007).
“The Etude Gone ‘Jazz-Mad:’ Construction of Illness and Gender in Educational Debates over American Music,” presented at Annual National Meeting of the Society for American Music in Eugene, Oregon (February 19, 2005).
“Early Twentieth-Century Educational Debates Over Jazz,” presented at Annual Meeting of Midwest Graduate Student Consortium in Madison, Wisconsin (February 25, 2005).
“Making ‘Sense out of Sound’ and Rationalizing What is Good: Goals of American Music Appreciation Textbooks of the 1920s,” presented at Annual National Meeting of the Society for American Music in Tempe, Arizona (March 2, 2003).
“From Active Participatory Music to Passive Appreciation: Changes in the WWI-Era Community Music Movement,” presented at Wisconsin Music Educators Conference Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin (October 2000).
Grants and Awards Received
Research Sabbatical (Spring 2020)
Professional Development Grants, UW-Oshkosh (Summer 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2021)
Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (June-July 2010)
Wisconsin Musicology Fellowship to support graduate studies, UW-Madison (2004)
Margaret Rupp Cooper Harp Award, UW-Madison (1995-1999)
Honors Program’s summer research grant for faculty/student collaboration, UW-Madison (1996)
Academic Service
Service to the Discipline of Musicology
Elected Representative, American Musicological Society Council (2024)
Submission reviewer, Journal of the Society for American Music (2021, 2011)
Submission reviewer, Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021, 2015)
Outside Reviewer for Musicology Scholarship Component of Tenure Application for Candidate in Commercial Music at the University of South Carolina Upstate (July 2021)
American Musicological Society R. Cohen/RIPM Award Committee Chairperson (2019-2020)
American Musicological Society R. Cohen/RIPM Award Committee Member (2018-2019)
Website Development and Maintenance for Feminist Theory and Music Conferences (2014-2018)
Submission reviewer for the Black Music Research Journal (December 2015)
Program Director, Feminist Theory and Music Conference (August 2015)
Member, Program Committee for Pedagogy Events, American Musicological Society (2012-present)
Member, Pedagogy Study Committee, American Musicological Society (2009-present)
Textbook proposal reviewer, McGraw Hill Publishing (2008)
International Historical Harp Society Board of Directors (2000-2006); Secretary (2000-2003)
University of Wisconsin System
Invited guest instructor, Madison Early Music Festival (2012)
Founding Member, Madison Early Music Festival Advisory Board (2001-2005)
Invited Session Moderator, Wisconsin Women’s Studies Conference (2004)
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
African American Studies Advisory Council, Member (Fall 2020-present)
Oshkosh Scholar, submission reviewer (Summer 2018)
John McNaughton Rosebush Professorship Committee Member (2017-2018)
Oshkosh Student Scholarly and Creative Activities Board Member (2017-2021)
Undergraduate Small Grants Reviewer (2017)
University Studies Program Council on Culture Member (2016-2017)
Nominated and Elected Member of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee (2014-2015)
Elected Member of Faculty Senate (2013-2015)
Faculty Development Compensation Committee, Member appointed by the Provost (2013-2014)
Cooperative Academic Partnership Program
CAPP Spring Workshop, yearly presenter (2009-2014)
Member, CAPP advisory committee (2010)
American Democracy Project Faculty Member (2012-2014)
Faculty Development Board proposal reviewer (2012-2014)
Research presentation to Women’s Center (October 21, 2011)
General Education Reform Team (Summer and Fall 2011)
Odyssey, first-year student orientation program, “Conversations with Faculty” (2009)
College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
COLS Faculty Committee, Member (Fall 2021)
Dean’s Office-Appointed Mentor for New Faculty Member (Fall 2021)
COLS Curriculum Committee (2014-2015)
Dean’s Symposium Lecturer (April 23, 2014)
Music Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Presentations to student convocations:
Music Research at UW-Oshkosh (March 2011)
Race & American Music in Historical Perspective (February 2010)
Time Management for Music Students, panel discussion member (October 2010)
The ‘Black Swan’ in America (February 2009)
Public lectures in conjunction with faculty performances:
Brahms and His World (December 2011)
Schumann Chamber Celebration (December 2010)
Infusion, Faculty Chamber Music Concert (Spring 2010)
Guest Harpist in University ensembles:
Chamber Singers (April 2012)
UWO Symphonic Wind Ensemble (May 2010)
UWO Symphony orchestra (December 2008, December 2009, March 2010, October 2010)
UWO Women’s Choir (December 2009)
Musica Viva! (Music Department Fundraising Event):
Silent auction assistant (2012, 2013)
Back-stage management; Wrote advertising copy for Oshkosh Northwestern (2011)
Music department liaison, Cooperative Academic Partnership Program (2009-2016)
Participation in “Majors Fest” and “Preview Day”
Participation in Music Department entrance audition days
Department Committees:
Personnel Committee (2016-present)
Curriculum Committee, Chairperson (2012-2013), Member (2010-2015, 2016-2018, 2020-2021)
Executive Committee Member (2013-2014, 2016-2018, 2020-2022), Chairperson (2016-2017)
Merit Review Committee (2016)
Library Committee, Chairperson (2011-2012) and Member (2009-2012)
General education reform: music department liaison and chairperson of ad hoc committee (2011-2012)
Departmental Search Committees:
Woodwind Position (2017-2018)
String Position (2016-2017)
Recording Technology (2014-2015)
Class Piano Tenure Track Position (2014-2015)
Theory Composition Tenure Track Position (2012-2013)
Theory/Composition Lecturer (Summer 2012)
Public Service
“Commemorate World War I in Song,” public lecture, sponsored by Oshkosh Public Museum and Public Library (November 12, 2017)
Provided interview to reporter Fiona Zublin of The Daily Dose, which resulted in the article “The Abolitionist Who Fought Racism with Music” (September 15, 2017)
Provided interview to reporter for Oshkosh Northwestern (November 2012)
Advised students at Oshkosh West High School creating a documentary about the history of rock for National History Day (February 2012)