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Marian Smith
(541) 346-3784
mesmith@uoregon.edu

Marian Smith joined the University of Oregon faculty in 1988, and is an associate professor of musicology. She holds the Ph.D. degree from Yale University , where she was awarded the Prize Teaching Fellowship. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Carleton College and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas .

Smith's current research interests include the historiography of La Sylphide and nineteenth-century Italian ballet and its music, and she has published articles and reviews in both music and dance journals (including the Cambridge Opera Journal, Dance Chronicle, Journal of the American Musicological Society, and Dance Research. Her essays on opera and ballet appear in program books of the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet in London and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan , and she has also presented scholarly papers in Italy , England , Germany , France , and Denmark . Her book on the intersection of opera and ballet in nineteenth-century Paris , Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle, was published by Princeton University Press in 2000, and awarded the De la Torre Bueno Prize by the Dance Perspectives Foundation.

Smith served as chair of the music history department at the University of Oregon from 1996-2003, and teaches courses on a variety of topics, including opera, nineteenth-century music, ballet, and theater music, and history pedagogy. She has also served on the editorial board of the Society of Dance History Scholars, and as President of the Pacific Northwest chapter of the American Musicological Society. She is currently a member of the editorial board of Dance Chronicle . Her research awards include grants and fellowships from the University of Oregon , the European Research Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In the fall of 2004 she taught at Carleton College as Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor, and in May 2007 at the University of Oregon she was given the Thomas F. Herman Faculty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching.