Deborah Heckert
Deborah Heckert
Adjunct Associate Professor, Musicology
Deborah Heckert is a part-time Associate Professor of Musicology at Brooklyn College, and is a leading scholar on the music of 19th - and 20th-century Britain. Her current research interests focus on British modernism in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century, the role of history in the identity politics of the English Musical Renaissance, and the intersections between British music and the visual arts. She has contributed essays to the volumes Elgar and His World, British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 and The Oxford Handbook of Medievalism and Music. Her monograph, Composing History: National Identities and the English Masque Revival, 1860–1925 was recently published by Boydell Press. She has also edited an English edition of the memoires of the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century Italian composer and teacher Giacomo Ferrari. She has presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, the Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, and the biennial NABMSA Conference. She is a recipient of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship and of a fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art.
At Brooklyn College, Professor Heckert teaches graduate seminars on Style Criticism, Research and Bibliography, and the Medieval-Baroque semester of the music history survey for undergraduate majors, as well as supervising individual projects and master's theses.
