Lisa Barg

Professor Lisa Barg serves as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Music at McGill University's Schulich School of Music. Her research focuses on gender, race, and sexuality in 20th-century music, with notable work on Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, and Melba Liston. She co-edits the Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture.

Education: B.A. (Antioch College, 1987), M.A. and Ph.D. (SUNY Stony Brook, 1994/2001).

Research Interests: Jazz studies, feminist musicology, modernist histories, opera/music-theater, cultural theory, and collaboration. Her work intersects queer theory, Black music history, and critical race studies.

Recent Research: Her book Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration (2023) examines Strayhorn’s music at the intersection of jazz and Black queer history. Funded projects include SSHRC grants on collaborative creativity in music recording.

• Awards: Kurt Weill Prize (2000), Philip Brett Award (2013)
• Grants: SSHRC Principal Investigator for “Collaborative Creativity: Sound Recording and Music Making”

Teaching includes undergraduate courses on 20th/21st-century music and opera, alongside graduate seminars on gender and jazz, feminist musicology, and avant-garde performance.