Marian Wilson Kimber
Associate Professor
Musicology
Phone: (319) 335-1668
Office: 314 CC
m-wilson-kimber@uiowa.edu

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Marian Wilson Kimber

Marian Wilson Kimber joined the faculty of The University of Iowa as Associate Professor of Musicology in 2004.  Her research centers on Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and explores issues surrounding biography, gender, compositional process, and musical reception.  Wilson Kimber received her Ph.D. from Florida State University with a dissertation on the autograph sources of Mendelssohn’s works for solo piano and orchestra.  She has contributed chapters to The Mendelssohn Companion, The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History, 19th-Century Piano Music (2nd ed.), 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 Music Review, and The Journal of Musicological Research. 

As part of the celebrations surrounding the two-hundredth anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn’s birth, Wilson Kimber made guest appearances at Duke University, Southwestern University, and Montana State University.  In September 2009 she spoke at Ewha Womans University and was a keynote speaker at the conference, “Haydn, Mendelssohn, and their Contemporaries,” held at Seoul University under the auspices of four Korean universities.  Wilson Kimber has also 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..

Wilson Kimber’s recent research investigating the late nineteenth-century combination of elocution with musical accompaniment is published in Musical Quarterly, 19th-Century Studies, and the book, Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches, and is forthcoming in a volume of essays, Melodramatic Voices.  Her current project is a book exploring the place of musical recitation in concert settings and domestic life from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century.

Wilson Kimber is currently the book review editor of The Journal of Musicological Research.  Active in the American Musicological Society, she has served on its national council and as an officer for two of its chapters. Wilson Kimber is president of the University of Iowa Chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

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