Julie McQuinn has earned both the B.M. degree in voice performance and the B.A. in mathematics from Oberlin College. She received a M.M. in voice performance from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and recently completed her Ph.D. in musicology from Northwestern University. In her dissertation, she explores the forces behind perceptions of gender and sexuality in Parisian society at the turn of the twentieth century, and their connection to the creation and reception of a handful of strikingly original and ultimately subversive operas.
Ms. McQuinn has taught previously both at Northwestern University and at Elmhurst College. She has presented papers at a number of conferences, including the International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, the American Musicological Society annual meeting, the Royal Music Association annual conference, and the International Samuel Barber Symposium. Ms. McQuinn has also given several pre-concert lectures for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Her article, "Exploring the Erotic in Debussy's Music," was published in The Cambridge Companion to Debussy in 2003.
Contact by e-mail: julie.mcquinn@lawrence.edu