Naomi André

PhD ’96, music, is an associate professor of women’s studies in the College of Literature, Sciences, and Arts and in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship focuses on 19th-century music, but her academic interests range from topics such as religious and political ideas in Schoenberg’s works to the collaboration of Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon on the album Graceland. Prior to her position at the University of Michigan, André worked with the Ford Foundation and the New England Board of Higher Education on shortening the time-to-degree and promoting diversity in the academy. André’s book Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the SecondWoman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera was published by Indiana University Press in 2006.