Hannah Durham, Ph.D.
Lecturer General Music Office Location: Luella Bennack Music Center, Adjunct Office 334 Email: hdurham@uiwtx.eduHannah Durham is a musicologist whose research interests include popular music in the United States, canonicity, aesthetics of popular music, criticism, and music and culture. She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, with a dissertation titled “The Past in the Present: Rock Ideology and Canon in the 1980s.” Hannah has presented research on topics around rock criticism and has contributed to essays on college music curricula. At University of the Incarnate Word, she currently teaches Music Appreciation, Studies in World Music, and American Popular Music (spring). Hannah is also on the faculty at Austin Community College where she teaches Music Literature and American Music.
Trinity Valley Community College, Athens, TX
AA (2001)
The University of Texas at Austin
BA, History (2004)
BA, Music (2009)
MM, Musicology (2012)
PhD Musicology (2021)
The University of Texas at Austin: Teaching Assistant, Assistant Instructor (2011-2020)
University of the Incarnate Word: Part Time Lecturer in Music History (2022-present)
Austin Community College: Adjunct Associate Professor – Music (2023-present)
American Musicological Society
Society for American Music
International Association for the Study of Popular Music