Education:

Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center - 2008 (Musicology)

M.Mus., Boston University - 1996 (Voice Performance)

B.A., Hollins University - 1994 (Music, French Literature)

Areas of Expertise:

A specialist in American music after 1900, Jensen-Moulton places particular importance in her work on music as it intersects with aspects of cultural expression such as ability, race, social class, gender, and sexuality. Specific research interests include disability and trauma studies, feminist ways of engaging musical texts, popular music studies, and the body as a musical technology.

Books and Publications

"Chapter 7: Performance." In A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age, Vol. 6, edited by William Cheng and Danielle Fosler-Lussier. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023: 181-204. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2023

"Kindness as Universal Design: Rethinking the Music Classroom from Within." In Sound Pedagogy: Radical Care and Social Justice for Students in Music, edited by Colleen Renihan, John D. Spilker, and Trudi Wright. University of Illinois, 2023. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2023

American Opera and the Dis/Abling of Women. Amherst College Press, forthcoming. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2023

Co-edited with Lauron Kehrer. "Better Be Good to Me": American Popular Songs as Domestic Violence Narratives. (University of Michigan Press, Music and Social Justice Series, 2023). (Books and Publications: Forthcoming Publications) 2023

"Colloquy: On the Disability Aesthetics of Music." Journal of the American Musicological Society 69/2 (Summer 2016). Co-Convenor with Blake Howe. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016

"Bodily and Musical Difference in Cirque du Soleil." The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Eds. Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2015

"Defamiliarizing the Familiar: Narrative Medicine in Michael Nyman's Opera 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.'" The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability. Eds. Blake Howe, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2015

Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie, Blake Howe, Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus, co-editors. The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies. New York: Oxford University Press. (Books and Publications: Book (Edited)) 2015

"Sounds of the Sweatshop: Pauline Oliveros and Maquilapolis." Tomorrow Is the Question: New Approaches to American Experimental Music. Ed. Benjamin Piekut. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013

Editor, "Fortunato: An Opera in Three Scenes," by Miriam Gideon. Recent Researches in American Music 72. Madison, Wis.: A/R Editions. (Books and Publications: Book (Authored)) 2013

"'Not Growed Up Yet': Intellectual Disability in Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men." American Music 31.2, Summer. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012

"'Specimens' and 'Peculiar Idiosyncrasies': Songs of 'Blind Tom' Wiggins." American Music Review 40.2, Spring: 4-5, 14. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011

"American Art Music and Culture." The Encyclopedia of American Music and Culture. Ed. Jacqueline Edmondson. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Press. Forthcoming in 2012. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011

"Opera from 1900-70"; "Cirque du Soleil"; "Bethany Beardslee"; "Boston Ideal Opera Company"; "Frank Corsaro"; "Central City Opera Festival"; "Dorothea Dix Lawrence"; "Robert McFerrin"; "National Opera Association"; "Marie Powers"; "Paul Sperry" and "Dawn Upshaw." New Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition. Ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011

"Porgy's Cane: Mediating Disability in A.R.T.'s Porgy and Bess." American Music Review 41.1, Fall: 4-5. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011

"Taking It Personally: Music and Disability Scholarship in the First Person Narrative." Review of Music, Disability, and Society, by Alex Lubet. Disability and Society. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2011

"Blind Tom." The Encyclopedia of Disability History. Ed. Susan Burch. New York: Facts on File. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009

"Breathing Life Into Biography." Review of Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality, by Martha Mockus. Amercian Music Review 39.1, Fall: 12. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009

"Music Fundamentals: Three Classes With Daniel Trush." Music Theory Online 15.3&4, August. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009

"On Music and Margins: Adrienne Fried Block and Miriam Gideon." American Music Review 39.1, Fall: 5-6. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009

"Reenacting the Passing Show of 1914," American Music Review 38.2, Spring: 9, 14. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009

Review of Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early 19th-Century Italian Opera, by Naomi André. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 13: 95-98. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2009

"Finding Autism in the Compositions of a 19th-Century Prodigy: Reconsidering 'Blind Tom' Wiggins." Sounding Off: Theorizing Music and Disability. Eds. Neil Lerner and Joseph N. Straus. New York: Routledge. 199-215. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2006

Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie and Christa Baiada. "Building a Home for Feminist Pedagogy." Women's Studies Quarterly 34.3&4, Fall/Winter: 287-90. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2006

"Gender Dynamics in the Film Anne B. Real." Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip-Hop Studies. Eds. Ellie M. Hisama and Evan Rapport. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Institute for Studies in American Music. 60-76. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2005

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Elebash Foundation Grant, with Michelle Yom, H. Wiley Hitchcock Centennial Celebration, Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, $20,000 (Grants and Fellowships) 2023

Tow Award for Excellence in Mentoring (Awards and Honors) 2023

Elebash Foundation Grant for "Can You Imagine" Symposium, Celebrating the Life and Works of Tania Léon, 15 April 2022. $30,000 for the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music. Co-written with Jeffrey Taylor. (Grants and Fellowships) 2022

Tow Professorship, Brooklyn College, 2019-21 (Awards and Honors) 2019

Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, 2011-12. (Awards and Honors) 2011

Fellowship for Research and Publishing in General Education Pedagogy, Roberta S. Matthews Center for College Teaching, Brooklyn College. (Grants and Fellowships) 2009

Carolyn Heilbrun Dissertation Prize in Women's Studies. (Awards and Honors) 2008

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums

"Precocious Audience: Aretha Franklin, Dolly Parton, and Prefiguring Worlds" at Yale University School of Music, April 2024. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2024

"Riddled with Regression? Expectations for Professionalism Post-COVID-19," Committee on Women and Gender Session, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Denver, CO, November 9, 2023. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2023

"Intellectual Disability in Of Mice and Men," The Graduate Center, CUNY November 28th, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018

"Wheelchair Overboard: Klinghoffer and Ableism," Columbia University, February 9, 2018. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2018

"Flashes of Light: Women's Memoirs of Trauma and Violence," Brooklyn College Faculty Day Conference, May 25th, 2017. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2017

"Diversity and the Future of SAM," Panel Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music, Boston, MA 2016 (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016

"Klinghoffer and Ableism." Annual Disability Studies Lecture, Lehman College, CUNY. April 2016. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016

Keynote Address, Rutgers Musicology Symposium, New Brunswick, Nj (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2016

"'All of Us Are Ahabs' : Jake Heggie's Operatic Moby-Dick." Society for Disability Studies. Minneapolis, June 12-14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

"'All of Us Are Ahabs': Jake Heggie's Operatic Moby-Dick." Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society and The Society for Music Theory, Milwaukee, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

"Creative Session: Reacting to the Past in the Music History Classroom." AMS Teaching Music History Day. Chicago, June 13-14. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2014

"Disability as Postmodernism: Christopher Knowles, Robert Wilson, and Einstein on the Beach." Eastman Musicology Symposium, Eastman Diversity Initiative Speaker. University of Rochester, April 10. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2014

"Bodily and Musical Difference in Cirque du Soleil." Musicology and Ethnomusicology Lecture Series. Boston University. Boston, Sept. 18. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013

"Disability as Postmodernism: Christopher Knowles, Robert Wilson, and Einstein on the Beach." Blake Howe's Disability and Music Seminar. Louisiana State University. Sept. 26. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013

"Safe to Dance? Disability and Musical Performance on Glee." Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Pittsburgh, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013

"Songs of 'Blind Tom' Wiggins." Invited Lecture-Recital at Hollins University. Roanoke, Va., Oct. 3. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2013

"'Thérèse, Thérèse, Thérèse!': Obsession and Paralysis in Tobias Picker's Opera Thérèse Raquin." Society for Disability Studies Annual Conference. Denver, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

"Disability as Postmodernism: Christopher Knowles, Robert Wilson, and Einstein on the Beach." Society for American Music Annual Conference. Charlotte, N.C., March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

"Disabled Opera Performers: An Exposition." Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. New Orleans, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2012

Invited lecture on Miriam Gideon. University of Oklahoma. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2012

"'Not Growed Up Yet': Intellectual Disability in Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men." Society for American Music Annual Conference. Cincinnati, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"'What is it you want to tell me?': Muteness and Masculinity in Menotti's The Medium." Faculty Day Conference. Brooklyn College. May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2011

"Songs of 'Blind Tom' Wiggins." CUNY Graduate Center. New York, May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"Songs of 'Blind Tom' Wiggins." SUNY Binghamton. Binghamton, N.Y., April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

Pre-concert lecture on American choral music by women composers. Choral Chameleon, Fourth Universalist Church. New York, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2011

"'What Is It You Want to Tell Me?': Muteness and Masculinity in Menotti's The Medium." CUNY Symposium on Music and Disability. CUNY Graduate Center, January. Symposium co-organizer with Blake Howe and Joseph N. Straus. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2010

"'Performing Bodily Confessions': Miriam Gideon's Unpublished Opera, Fortunato" lecture-recital. Feminist Theory and Music 10. University of North Carolina at Greensboro. May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Sounds of the Sweatshop: Pauline Oliveros and Maquilapolis." Society for American Music Annual Conference, Denver, March; and as an invited speaker on the Music in Polycultural America series, Brooklyn College, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009

"Music Fundamentals: Three Semesters With Daniel Trush." Special Session on Disability Pedagogy. Society for Music Theory Annual Conference. Nashville, Tenn., November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

"Teaching to Their Strengths: Prior Knowledge in the Core Classroom" symposium. Faculty Day, Brooklyn College, May; and Brooklyn College Center for Teaching's New Faculty Orientation, August. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Contributed Talk) 2008

"'Savoir ce qu'il senefie': Women and Domesticity in the Music of the Roman de Fauvel." International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Mich., May. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

"Notable Women: A Celebration of Women Composers: Pioneers" panel, organized by St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble's Second Helpings Series. June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

"Streetwalkers and Adoring Assistants: Women Writing Opera Libretti in the 1950s." Feminist Theory and Music 9. McGill University. Montreal, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

Guest speaker on Miriam Gideon, seminar led by Professor Ellie M. Hisama. Columbia University. New York, September. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

"Composing Herself: Finding Miriam Gideon in Her 1958 Opera Fortunato." Jewish Music Forum, Center for Jewish History. November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006

"Finding Autism in the Compositions of a 19th-Century Prodigy: Reconsidering 'Blind Tom' Wiggins." Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music. Chicago, March. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006

"Gender Dynamics in the Film Anne B. Real." Biennial International Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Rome, July. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

"Gender Dynamics in the Film Anne B. Real." Feminist Theory and Music 8. CUNY Graduate Center and New York University. June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

"Sold Out: Hip-Hop in Cirque du Soleil's La Nouba." Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Canada. St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, June. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005

Professional Leadership

Director, Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2020-23 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2023

Faculty Associate to the Dean of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts. Brooklyn College, 2022-23. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2023

Interim Dean, School of Visual, Media, and Performing Arts (2023-2024) (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2023

Chair, Committee on Women and Gender, American Musicological Society, 2019-2023 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019

Interim Director, Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY, 2019-20 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2019

Chair, Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, Society for American Music, 2018-19 (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2018

Committee Member, Boston Annual Meeting Program Committee, Society for American Music, 2015-16. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2015

Director, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2015

Member, Distinguished Mentors Council, Composers Now, 2015-present. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2015

Chair, Ad-Hoc Committee on Disability Accommodation, Society for American Music, 2014-16. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2014

Chair, Board for the Roberta S. Matthews Center for Teaching, Brooklyn College, 2012-13. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2012

Co-chair, Disability Studies Interest Group, American Musicological Society. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2012

Advisory Board member, Daniel's Music Foundation (providing music instruction and community for New Yorkers of all ages with disabilities), 2008-present. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2010

Co-chairwoman, Faculty Day Committee, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010

Deputy chairwoman, Graduate Music Studies, Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2010

Executive Board member, Roberta S. Matthews Center for Teaching, Brooklyn College. (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010

Pedagogical Achievements

Teaching portfolio selected for inclusion in The Teaching Portfolio: A Practical Guide to Improved Performance and Promotion/Tenure Decisions, 4th ed. Eds. Peter and Clement Seldin. Hoboken, N.J.: Jossey-Bass. 2009

Other Professional Activities

Book reviews editor, Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, 2011-14. 2012