Position: Assistant Professor of Music
Professional Experience: Member of Society of Music Theory; College Music Society and National Opera Association
B.A. - Music from Queens College, City University of New York. M.A. - Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Ph.D. - Music Theory from Florida State University.
Book: Ya-Hui Cheng. Puccini’s Women: Structuring the Role of the Feminine in Puccini’s Operas (VDM Verlag, 2009).
Article: Ya-Hui Cheng. “The Harmonic Representation of the Verismo Female Lead in Puccini,” The Opera Journal (Forthcoming).
Tonal and Post-Tonal Analysis, 19th Century Operas, Genderism, and Exoticism