Tamara Levitz named Danto Lecturer for 2022 ASA Annual Meeting

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce that Tamara Levitz, Professor of Comparative Literature and Musicology and Director of Graduate Studies at UCLA, will give the Arthur Danto Memorial Lecture at the 80th ASA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The lecture will be presented Friday, November 18 at 5:30 pm at the conference hotel, followed by a reception in her honor.

Professor Levitz works extensively on musical and literary modernism, and in 2013 won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for her monograph Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone. Since that time, she has researched structures of white supremacy and racial exclusion in the formation of the music disciplines in the United States. Her engagement with the aesthetics of music began when she was an M.A. student in Berlin in the 1980s, and most recently led her to write the article on the “Twentieth-Century” for the Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy and to engage with Benjamin Piekut in a dialogue on “Vernacular Avant-Garde: A Speculation” (https://asapjournal.com/the-vernacular-avant-garde-a-speculation-tamara-levitz-and-benjamin-piekut/ ). She is currently working on a monograph on Settler Colonial Humanists and the Racial Foundations of Comparison, which will engage with the history of Comparative Musicology and Comparative Literature. 

For more information on Professor Levitz: https://complit.ucla.edu/person/tamara-levitz/

For more information on the Annual Meeting: https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1184489&group=