Pamela Feo

Pamela Feo is a Lecturer specializing in French modernist music. She completed her doctoral studies in Musicology at Boston University, during which time she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship at the Boston University Center for the Humanities. Her dissertation research used the lens of cultural geography to understand how music “moved” through fin-de-siècle Paris and contributed to social mobility, consumer culture, and the definition of urban and rural spaces. Her claim that sound can engage in the act of mapping poses ontological questions about what constitutes a map, and what social functions music can have beyond aesthetic value.

Additional scholarly interests include the history of recorded sound; her article “ ‘So intangible a thing as a pianist’s touch’: Listening to the Body in Player-Piano Performance” was published in Keyboard Perspectives, a journal of Cornell University’s Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies.

Courses taught at BU include Staging Opera in the 20th and 21st Centuries; Women Musicians in Paris, 1880-1940; French Modernisms; and the Graduate Music History Review.