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Marian Wilson KimberMarian Wilson Kimber joined the faculty of The University of Iowa as Associate Professor of Musicology in 2004. Her previous teaching positions were at the University of Virginia, the University of Alabama, the University of Kansas, Cornell College, and the University of Southern Mississippi. Wilson Kimber’s research centers on Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and explores issues surrounding biography, gender, compositional process, and musical reception. She received her Ph.D. from Florida State University with a dissertation on the autograph sources of Mendelssohn’s works for solo piano and orchestra. Wilson Kimber has contributed chapters to The Mendelssohn Companion, The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History, 19th-Century Piano Music, Fanny Hensel geb. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn, and Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms. She is the author of articles in 19th-Century Music, The Journal of Musicology, 19th-Century Studies and 19th-Century Music Review (forthcoming). Her recent research investigates the place of elocution and musical recitation in late nineteenth-century concert settings and domestic life. Wilson Kimber has presented numerous papers at national and regional meetings of the American Musicological Society. She has spoken at several international conferences, including the Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Symposium held at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and The Mendelssohns at the Millennium, both in 1997. In 2005 she appeared at the University of Dublin’s Mendelssohn in the Long Nineteenth Century and presented a paper on Das Jahr at the International Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Conference, held in honor of the composer’s 200th birthday. Wilson Kimber is currently the book review editor of The Journal of Musicological Research. Active in the American Musicological Society, Wilson Kimber has served
on its national council and as an officer for two of its chapters; she
recently completed a term as president of the Southern Chapter. Wilson
Kimber is vice president of the Iowa Chapter of the American Association
of University Professors and a member of the AAUP Executive Committee
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