Faculty

James Q. Davies is Professor of Music, editor of the UChicago Press book series New Material Histories
of Music, and scholar with musicological interests and expertise in the long nineteenth century. He
authored the books Romantic Anatomies of Performance (California: 2014) and Creatures of the Air:
Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath, 1817-1913 (Chicago: 2023). James grew up in Johannesburg, with first
degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand. He wrote his PhD at the University of Cambridge,
where he later received a Junior...