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College of Charleston Music Department
Blake Stevens

Telephone: (843) 953-8220
Office: 323, Simons Center
E-mail: stevensb@cofc.edu

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Blake Stevens

Assistant Professor, Music History

Blake Stevens is Assistant Professor of Music History at the College of Charleston. His research and teaching interests include the history of opera and music aesthetics, with a focus on the tragédie en musique from Jean-Baptiste Lully to Jean-Philippe Rameau. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Music History from Stanford University, writing a dissertation on the tradition of the monologue in classical French tragedy and opera (“Solitary Persuasions: The Concept of the Monologue in French Opera from Lully to Rameau,” 2007). His doctoral research was recognized with a grant from the Georges Lurcy Trust for archival work in Paris and a year-long residency at the Stanford Humanities Center.

Professor Stevens has given papers in both national and international conferences, including the National Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and he has published in the Cambridge Opera Journal.