Elaine Sisman

Elaine Sisman is the Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music and returning Chair of Music Humanities. Her research interests are the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, issues of musical meaning and persuasion, biography and late style, and the Enlightenment imagination. She has served as department chair and president of the American Musicological Society and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.