Judith Lochhead

Judith Lochhead is a Professor in the Department of Music History & Theory at Stony Brook University. Her scholarship bridges music theory and musicology, focusing on contemporary practices in North America and Europe.

• Key Publications: Reconceiving Structure: New Tools in Music Theory and Analysis (2015), Music’s Immanent Future: Beyond Past and Present (2016, co-edited), and Sound and Affect: Sound, Music, World (2021, co-edited).
• Current Projects: Contributions to the Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music on Liza Lim’s Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus, a Festschrift for Leo Treitler in Musical Quarterly, and a queering analysis of Chaya Czernowin’s Anea Crystal.

She teaches courses on rock/popular music, timbre analysis, new materialisms, and post-1945 performance practices. Her work intersects with interdisciplinary fields like affect theory and phenomenology, emphasizing innovative analytical frameworks.

Lochhead's research has appeared in journals such as Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and Perspectives of New Music, as well as in edited collections like The Oxford Handbook on Spectral Music.