Elizabeth Sayrs
Professor of Music Theory
Elizabeth Sayrs serves as a professor of music theory, teaching a range of courses from the undergraduate theory and aural skills core to graduate seminars. She has presented her work on 19th-century music, cognitive linguistics and music, music theory pedagogy, and gender studies and music at numerous regional and national conferences. Her research has appeared in鈥疌ollege Music Symposium,鈥疢usic Theory Online,鈥疢usic Theory Spectrum, the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and the鈥疛ournal of Schenkerian Studies. In addition, the book chapter 鈥淧laying the 鈥楽cience Card鈥: Science as Metaphor in the Practice of Music Theory,鈥 with co-author Gregory Proctor, was published in What Kind of Theory is Music Theory? Epistemological Exercises in Music Theory and Analysis, edited by Per F. Broman and Nora Engebretsen. Her interactive e-text,鈥疢Fun: Music Fundamentals鈥痺as published in 2012, and she has served on the editorial board and as editor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.
Prior to her appointment to the 黑料视频 faculty in 2004, Dr. Sayrs served on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Valparaiso University; the Ohio State University; and the University of Saskatchewan, where she was awarded the Dwaine Nelson Teaching Award. In 2007, she received the 黑料视频 School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award. She has previously served as the Dean of University College and Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Success, Interim Dean of the College of Fine Arts, and Executive Vice President and Provost at 黑料视频, with a focus on public higher education as an engine of social and economic mobility and equity.
She received the B.A. in Music from Wellesley (Katharine Malone Scholar), the M.A. in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music (Beinecke Scholarship, Sproull Fellow), and the Ph.D. in Music Theory from Ohio State (Presidential Dissertation Fellow).