Nadine Hubbs

Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Music Ph.D. in Music (Theory), Michigan

Contact Information:
2229 Lane Hall
204 S. South St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
734.647.0781
Email: nhubbs@umich.edu

Website:
http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/nhubbs/

Scholarly Interests: Gender and sexuality in music, LGBTQ history, American music, modernism, class in the U.S.

Biography: Nadine Hubbs is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Music and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Women's Studies Department. She serves as advisor to the LGBTQ Graduate Certificate Program and is a founding co-director of the U-M Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI). Her research focuses on popular and classical music, gender and queer studies, modern American culture, and class studies. Hubbs's book The Queer Composition of America's Sound (California, 2004) was recognized by the Philip Brett Award of the American Musicological Society, Irving Lowens Award of the Society for American Music, and John Boswell Prize of the American Historical Association's Committee on Lesbian and Gay History. Her current research uses social theory and empirical method to examine country music in relation to class, gender, race, and sexuality. She was awarded the 2009 Martin Duberman Fellowship by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) for her book-in-progress Unmapped Country: Gay and Lesbian Country Music Fandom.

Publications:

"Sounding the Virile Female: 'Redneck Woman' and the Gendered Politics of Class Rebellion." Forthcoming. 

"'I Will Survive': Musical Mappings of Queer Social Space in a Disco Anthem." Popular Music 26.2 (2007): 231-44.

The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004.

"Music of the 'Fourth Gender': Morrissey and the Sexual Politics of Melodic Contour." Genders 23 (1996): 266-96.