معرفی
Toru Momii is an Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University, specializing in music theory with a focus on musical interculturality in post-war Japan, racial and colonial politics of U.S./Canadian music theory, and Asian/American performance studies. His current book project, Performing Against the Grain: Musical Interculturality and the Politics of Japaneseness, examines how Japanese and diasporic Japanese musicians have resisted racialized cultural narratives through performance.
- Education
- Ph.D. in Music Theory, Columbia University (2021)
- M.A. in Music Theory, McGill University
- B.A. in Music and Economics, Vassar College (Phi Beta Kappa)
Momii’s research has been honored with the SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s Junior Fellowship. His work on Shō performance earned the Society for Music Theory’s 2021 Outstanding Publication Award.
He co-founded the Engaged Music Theory Working Group and serves as a faculty affiliate for Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Project Spectrum, advocating for diversity and inclusion in music studies. Previously, he taught at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and Columbia University.
