Francesca Brittan

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   Francesca Brittan | Medicine, Society and Culture (Bioethics MA Concentration) | School of Medicine | Case Western Reserve University

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   Biographical context: Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Biographical context: In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Biographical context: She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University).

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Biographical context: She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Degree: Ph.D.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Education record: Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007)

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Identity: Francesca Brittan

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: Head of Musicology

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd).

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Professional role: She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Research interests: Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

   Research interests: Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening.

   Francesca Brittan Francesca Brittan, PhD Email [contact withheld] Phone [contact withheld] Office Location: Haydn Hall 315 Associate Professor, Department of Music, College of Arts and Sciences Affiliated Faculty, Department of Cognitive Science, College of Arts and Sciences Head of Musicology Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Musicology Francesca Brittan is a scholar of music and sound cultures 1800-present. She holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2007), and was a Research Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge between 2006-08. She joined the Dpt. of Music at Case in 2009 and accepted a secondary appointment in the Dpt. of Cognitive Science in 2023. Her current research and graduate-level teaching focuses on sonic histories of medicine; conceptions of auditory attention/cognition from the eighteenth- to the twenty-first century; music and neuroscience (including neurodivergent auralities); music and the emotions; and psychologies of listening. At the undergraduate level, she offers classes on music and mind; environmental sound, orchestral and conducting cultures; and sonic histories of magic. Brittan’s first book, Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz (Cambridge, 2017) traces intersections between musical enchantment and romantic science from Berlioz to Stravinsky. Current book projects include Instruments of Mind: Cognitive Orchestrations, examining historical and current entanglements between musical and neural organologies; and The Spectral Conductor: Histories and Post-Histories of Orchestral Power, tracing intersections among conductors, magicians, mesmerists, CEOs, and neuroscientists. She is co-editor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, Subjectivity (in progress for Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, with Carmel Raz); and Berlioz and His World (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2024, with Sarah Hibberd). Brittan serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Musicology and General Editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Toronto), a Junior Research Fellowship (University of Cambridge), a Senior Research Fellowship (University of Amsterdam), a W.P. Jones Presidential Faculty Development Award (CWRU), and the Dimitrije Pivnicki Award in Neuro and Psychiatric History (McGill University). In 2012, she won the American Musicological Society’s Alfred Einstein Award. In 2024 she served as scholar-in-residence at the Bard Festival. In addition to her scholarly activities, Brittan is active as a fortepianist and teacher of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century performance practices. She teaches in the Historical Performance Program at CWRU and holds an appointment in the Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.