Jeffrey Kallberg

Jeffrey Kallberg is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Music and Associate Dean for Arts and Letters at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences. His expertise spans 19th- and 20th-century music, editorial theory, critical theory, and gender studies. He holds offices at the National Chopin Institute in Warsaw and has authored influential works on Chopin, including Chopin at the Boundaries. His research reconstructing Chopin's sketches and editing Verdi's Luisa Miller have garnered international acclaim.

• Awards: Alfred Einstein Prize (1984), Guggenheim Fellowship (1992)
• Current Projects: Books on Chopin's nocturnes, material culture, and Scandinavian modernism

Research interests emphasize intersectionality between music and socio-cultural contexts, with recent focus on landscape aesthetics in Scandinavian music (e.g., Sibelius, Nielsen).

He advises the National Chopin Institute’s programming and contributes to major scholarly resources like the New Grove Dictionary. His work bridges analytical rigor with interdisciplinary humanities perspectives.