CLARA HUNTER LATHAM

CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS

Assistant Professor of Music Technology, Eugene Lang College, 2018 - present Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lecturer, 2017 - 2018 Dartmouth College, Department of Music, Lecturer, 2016 Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Music, Teaching Fellow, Spring - Fall 2015

EDUCATION

New York University August 2006 - January 2015 - Ph.D., Music, 2015 Dissertation: “Listening to the Talking Cure: Sound and Voice in Psychoanalysis” Committee: Suzanne G. Cusick (advisor), Ann Pellegrini, Michael Beckerman, Brian Kane, Elizabeth Hoffman, J. Martin Daughtry.

Oberlin Conservatory August 2000 - May 2004 - B.Mus., Composition -

AWARDS AND HONORS

Akademie Schloss Solitude Residency Fellowship (music and sound), May – December 2020 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Spring 2017 DAAD Faculty Summer Seminar in German Studies, 2017 Case Western Reserve University Research Fellowship to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Archive, 2016 American Composers Forum JFund Awrd for New Music, Fall 2015 Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, Spring 2015 Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies, 2014 Berlin Prize Alternate, 2013 Millay Artist in Residence, September 2013 NYU Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, 2012 - 2013 Mellon Fellowship on the Problem of Translation, NYU Comparative Literature, Summer 2012 Student Travel Grant, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2012

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

“Absent body: Gender and Materiality in the rise and fall of the RCA Theremin”, under review. “Unboxing timbre in the Behringer model D Synthesizer”, Sound Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal, (5:2), 2019. “How Many Voices Can She Have? Destabilizing Gender and Sexuality in Lulu”, Special issue on voice, edited by Emily Dolan, Opera Quarterly; Opera Quarterly (32:3), 2018. “Listening to Modernism” review essay Contemporary European History: (26:2), 2017. “Discourses of control: The instrumental body in cybernetics”, Repercussions – Music and Cybernetics in Historical Perspective, November 2019. “Classroom erotics: Pedagogy, intimacy, power”, Women, Music, Power: A Celebration of Suzanne G. Cusick’s Work, Columbia University, 12 December, 2015

SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND CURRENT PROJECTS “No Room”, a music-theater work

In development

“Bertha the Mom”, a Chamber Opera for vocalists Michael Weyandt, and Alice Teyssier, Peter Evans (trumpet), Seth Parker Woods (cello). Libretto by James Currie. Commissioned by the American Composers Forum JFund for New Music.

Premiere: June 3, 2018, Roulette, NYC

“Every night in the world is a night in the hospital” for mezzo-soprano and string quartet Premiere: Washington Square Contemporary Music Ensemble, ensemble Mise-En, March 28, 2014.