Peng Liu

Peng Liu received his PhD in Musicology from the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) in 2021, where he currently works as a lecturer in musicology. Drawing on an extensive body of primary sources—including press reports, correspondences, sheet music, and other archival documents, his dissertation critically examines how German musician Anna Caroline de Belleville successfully navigated her long musical career in the nineteenth century, as virtuoso pianist, composer, and music entrepreneur. In addition to women musicians and piano music and culture, his research interests also include Chinese/Chinese American music and identity politics and music and meaning. His articles, reviews, and translations have been published or are forthcoming in The Journal of Musicology, Notes (The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association), Journal of Central Conservatory of Music, Journal of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, and Music Culture Studies. He has regularly presented his work at regional, national, and international refereed conferences, including the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS), the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, the International Conference on Women’s Work in Music, and Music of Asian America Conference. His research has been supported by a COFA/Graduate School Continuing Fellowship at UT-Austin, the H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Fund from the AMS, and Music & Letters Trust Award. In 2018, he was selected as winner of the AMS-Southwest Chapter’s Hewitt-Oberdoerffer award for best graduate student paper. As Co-President for UT-Austin’s Association of Graduate Ethno/Musicology Students (AGEMS) in 2018-2019, he initiated and chaired the 2019 UT-Austin Graduate Music Conference. He currently serves as a member of the Communications Committee at the AMS.