Dr. Maria Cizmic

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PhD. Musicology

University of California at Los Angeles, 2004

Areas of Interest:

Music, the body, and performance; trauma theory and disability studies; music and politics; music, performance, and technology.

About Dr. Cizmic:

Maria Cizmic is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of South Florida. She completed her PhD in Musicology in 2004 at the University of California, Los Angeles where she was a Jacob K. Javitz fellow. She currently teaches interdisciplinary courses that integrate musicology and the humanities, including her survey of twentieth-century culture (HUM 3251) and Representing Trauma (HUM 4930). She is currently working on a book project, Performing Pain: Music and Trauma in 1970s and 80s Eastern Europe that considers the ways in which music interacts with representations of pain, trauma, and memory.

Publications

• Transcending the Icon: Spirituality and Postmodernism in Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa and Spiegel im Spiegel.” Under consideration at twentieth–century music.

• Of Bodies and Narratives: Musical Representations of Pain and Illness in HBO’s W;t.” Sounding Off: Music and Disability Studies. Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus, eds. New York: Routledge, forthcoming Fall 2006.

• Composing the Pacific: Interviews with Lou Harrison.” ECHO: a music-centered journal 1.1 (Fall 1999): http://www.echo.ucla.edu/.

Conference Presentations

• “Collage as Memory: Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Piano and Strings,” read at the Political Trauma & Restoration Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 2006.

• “Hammering Hands: Galina Ustvolskaya’s Piano Sonata No. 6 and a Hermeneutic of Pain,” read at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in Seattle, Washington, November 2004.

• “Two Women, Two Voices: Musical and Visual Representations of Pain and Illness in HBO’s Wit and Górecki’s Third Symphony,” an invited paper read on the Disability Studies Panel chaired by Joseph N. Straus at the annual meting of the American Musicological Society in Seattle, Washington, November 2004.

• “Music, Memory, and War: Górecki’s Third Symphony and the Politics of Remembering,” read at the annual meeting of the Western Humanities Alliance in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2003.

• “Two Women, Two Voices: Musical and Visual Representations of Pain and Illness in HBO’s Wit and Górecki’s Third Symphony,” read at the Stanford University Film Music Conference “Reviewing the Canon: Borrowed Music in Films,” in Palo Alto, California, May 2003.

• “Henry Cowell’s The Banshee: An Essay in Textuality, the Body, and Performance,” read at the annual meeting of the Society for American Music in Tempe, Arizona, March 2003.

• “Glenn Gould’s Chair: Technology, the Body, and the Aesthetics of Humming,” read at the joint meeting of the Society for American Music and the Center for Black Music Research in Port of Spain, Trinidad, May 2001.

• “Arvo Pärt: Transcending the Icon,” read at the annual meeting of the Western Humanities Alliance in Seattle, Washington, October 2000.

• “Prokofiev and the Double Bind of Soviet Aesthetics,” read at the Southern California joint chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology in San Diego, California, February 2000.