Marianna Ritchey

Marianna Ritchey is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she serves as Area Coordinator for Music History in the Department of Music and Dance.

Research focuses on:

• Neoliberalism in classical music culture
• Operatic representations of technology
• Political economy of music
• Film and contemporary music analysis

Her monograph 'Composing Capital' examines classical music's relationship with capitalist ideologies. Current research explores music's role in political imagining and abolitionist frameworks.