Dr. Lindsay Maureen Johnson
Associate Teaching Professor · Non-Tenure Track
Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Department of Music
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Lindsay Johnson teaches music history and directs UMBC’s early music ensemble, and is Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Minor. She holds a PhD in Musicology from UCLA.
Research interests
17-century Italian nuns and their music with respect to sacred eroticism and performed embodiment. Queer theory and convent culture.
Gender and sexuality, the performing voice and body, and the experience of the listener.
Teaching interests
Music history in its cultural context; gender and sexuality in music; music and social justice; early music performance; experimental archaeology; listening.
Education
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Ph D, Musicology
— University of California, Los Angeles (2013) Performed Embodiment, Sacred Eroticism, and Voice in Devotions by Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Nuns
- MA, Musicology — University of California, Los Angeles (2008)
- BA, Music — Salem College (2005)
Presentations
- "Multimedia Communication About Music" 2021
Grants and Contracts
- CIRCA Faculty Pedagogy Fellowship 2020
Courses Taught
- Music History I
- Small Ensemble
- Topic in Music, Art & Society
- Music History I
- Small Ensemble
- Music In Performance
- Music History I
- Music in Wartime
- Music History II
- Small Ensemble
- Music in Performance
- Music History I
- Collegium