Alexander Carpenter

I am a professor of musicology at the University of Alberta, a music critic, and rock musician. My main research interests are Viennese music and culture, popular music, aesthetics, music and psychoanalysis, and film music. I am the editor of "Schoenberg in Context" (Cambridge University Press) and co-editor of "Echoes of Tartini" (Böhlau Verlag). As a musician, I perform as a singer and guitarist with the Edmonton-based bands Boomstick and The Exstatics.

Experience

  • 2006–present
    Professor of Music, University of Alberta, Augustana
  • 2021–2025
    Director, Wirth Institute, University of Alberta
  • 2019–2019
    Visiting Professor , University of Innsbruck
  • 2018–2018
    Visiting Professor, University of Vienna
  • 2004–2006
    Assistant Professor, University of Prince Edward Island

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