Vivian Luong

Vivian Luong
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, University of Oklahoma

Vivian Luong is a music theorist interested in the ethics of music analysis, feminist and queer theory, Schenkerian analysis, and affective autoethnography. Her dissertation, “Analysis as Ethics: Experiments with Music Loving,” explores the caring practices and harmful effects of analysis through the perspectives of feminist music theory and new materialisms. Interested in building disciplinary coalition otherwise, her more recent work reconsiders key music theoretical concepts, such as bodies, love, and musical agency, in dialogue with Black, Indigenous, and other minoritized perspectives. Vivian’s research on musical ethics and loving has been published in Music Theory Online, the Engaged Music Theory blog, and Theory and Practice, and will be featured in the collection “Modelling Musical Analysis” (OUP, forthcoming). Her work on queering musical agency will be featured in the collection titled “Queer Ear” edited by Gavin Lee with Oxford University Press. Prior to teaching at the University of Oklahoma, Vivian taught at the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Virginia, and the University of Michigan, where she received her PhD in music theory.