Lawrence Kramer Distinguished Professor B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.Phil. and Ph.D., Yale University lkramer@fordham.edu Lowenstein 921D Ext. 6791

Professor Kramer is the author of Hart Crane's The Bridge: An Annotated Edition (2011), Interpreting Music (2010), Why Classical Music Still Matters (2007), Critical Musicology and the Responsibility of Response: Selected Essays (2006), Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss (2004), Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History (2001), Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song (1998), After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture (1997), Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge (1995), Music as Cultural Practice: 1800-1900 (1990), and Music and Poetry: The Nineteenth Century and After (1984). He is the editor of the journal 19th-Century Music and of three essay collections, Walt Whitman and Modern Music (2000), Beyond the Soundtrack: Representing Music in Cinema (2006, with Richard Leppert and Daniel Goldmark), and Musical Meaning and Human Values (2009, with Keith Chapin).

Areas of Interest

Literary theory, psychoanalysis, literary-musical relations, critical musicology.