Roger Mathew Grant is a theorist and historian of music and culture with particular interests in affect theory, the history of music theory, and eighteenth-century music. His journal articles have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Representations, Music Theory Spectrum, JAMS, and the Journal of Music Theory. His first book, Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era, won the 2016 Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Music Theory. In addition to teaching at Wesleyan, he has taught seminars the music departments at Harvard and Yale, and has held fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center and in the University of Michigan Society of Fellows. He received his PhD in music from the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical, was selected for the “Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory” for 2020.