Alice Jayon Lee - Musicologist
Alice Lee is a University Assistant in the Department of Arts and Musicology since March 2025. She completed a bachelor's double major in music and economics at Columbia University and has since been a PhD candidate in music history and theory at Stony Brook University.
She spent the academic year 2022/23 as a Fulbright Mach Scholar in Austria, where she worked as a visiting researcher at the Department of Musicology at the University of Graz with the support of a Fulbright scholarship.
Alice Jayon Lee's research focuses on opera in the German-speaking world during the 19th century, with a particular focus on the relationships between the mechanisms of the market, opera houses and singers and their agents. She is particularly interested in analysing quantitative - especially financial - issues through the application of empirical, data-based methods.
In her dissertation project, she examines the Vienna Court Opera in the mid- to late 19th century, particularly with regard to its fiscal and institutional framework. She also takes into account the “unsung” staff, whose work contributed to the overall production of the operas but may not have been recognized as such. For her dissertation work, Alice Lee received the Richard Plaschka Scholarship from the Federal Ministry for Women, Science, and Research from August 2024 to February 2025.
Alice Lee has already presented her research findings across the US and Europe. Since last winter semester, she has also been teaching at the Institute for Art and Musicology, for example on aesthetics and music economics; and this semester she is teaching a course on operatic topoi of female suffering
Researchers from the two sections
Current research focuses on the architecture, sculpture and painting of historicism and modernism
Engages in various aspects of fundamental relationships between visual arts and techniques as part of research project
Active for many years in the field of modern and contemporary art
Joep Janssen's research interests lie in the interdisciplinary approach to music history, with a particular focus on the analysis of musical topoi and the connection between nature, politics and identity in the 19th century.
The current focus is on the discourses of posthumanism in relation to contemporary phenomena of musical culture
Focus on the topicality of critical theory as well as on possible connections between aesthetics and politics in contemporary art
Alice Lee's research focuses on opera in German-speaking countries in the 19th century, in particular opera houses and their market mechanisms from a financial perspective.
Her research interests include historiography of modern art, non-Western modern and contemporary art productions, as well as art theory from the global South and postcolonial art history
After working on the reconstruction of the production system of opera in the Eastern Adriatic theaters, the current focus is on Giuseppe Tartini's "School of Nations"
Main research area is the history of opera from the 17th to the 20th century in Europe and the worldwide distribution areas of the genre
Works on the one hand on the composer Franz Waxman and his life and work "between film music and concert hall". Dedicates the new project to the digital edition of Gumpenhuber's theater chronicles