Jessica Payette

Jessica Payette serves as Associate Professor of Musicology within Oakland University's School of Music, Theatre and Dance in Rochester, Michigan, teaching undergraduate music history surveys, a capstone course on twentieth-century Berlin, and graduate music history seminars.

Her academic credentials include a Ph.D. and M.A. in Musicology and Humanities from Stanford University, alongside dual Bachelor's degrees in Piano Performance and Art History from the University of Minnesota where she was a Selmer Birkelo Scholar.

Professor Payette's research specializes in Austrian opera, fin-de-siècle Vienna, Expressionistic music emergence, and choreographic music, with significant contributions to Progressive Era Chicago women composers through her Eleanor Smith scholarship. Her work bridges musicology with social history and cultural studies.

Publications from 2011-2021 reveal consistent focus on 20th-century musical modernism, particularly Austrian cultural contexts and American music history, examining intersections between musical expression and social movements like Chicago's Hull-House reform initiatives.

She received the Selmer Birkelo Scholar award during undergraduate studies.

• American Musicological Society
• Austrian Studies Association
• Dance Studies Association
• Society for American Music