Julia Kursell is professor and chair of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam. She studied musicology, Slavic philology and comparative literature in Munich, Moscow and Los Angeles, and completed her doctoral studies at Munich University with a thesis on music in the early Russian Avant-Garde. Before coming to Amsterdam, she was assistant professor at the Slavic Department of Munich University, and research fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Berlin. From 2004 to 2011 she worked as research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, where she was a member of the research group “Experimentalization of Life”. In 2013, she received the Habilitation (professorial degree) in musicology and history of science from Technical University, Berlin, for the thesis “Ohr und Instrument: Zu Hermann von Helmholtz’ physiologischer Grundlegung der Musiktheorie”. Her research interests include 20^th and 21^st-century composition, the history of musicology and the relation between music and science. Currently, she is working on a book project on tacit knowledge in musicology. 

Selected publications:

2013 (ed. with Alexandra E. Hui and Myles W. Jackson). Music, Sound, and the Laboratory, From 1750 – 1980, Osiris 28 (2013), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2012. “‘Presque une image materielle’. Die serielle Musik von Jean Barraqué”. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 7: 90-102.

2011. “A Gray Box. The Phonograph in Laboratory Experiments and Field Work, 1900-1920”. In The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies, eds. Karin Bijsterveld and Trevor Pinch, 176-197, New York: Oxford University Press.

2011. “Visualizing Piano Playing, 1890-1930”. Grey Room 43: 66-87.

2010. “Moscow Eye and Ear Control. Über die neurophysiologischen Arbeiten von Nikolaj Bernstein zum Klavierspiel”. In Ultravision. Zum Wissenschaftsverständnis der Avantgarde, eds. Sabine Flach, Margarete Vöhringer, 83-105, Munich: Fink.

2010. “Immanenzebene. Zur elektronischen Musik von David Tudor. In Klangmaschinen zwischen Experiment und Medientechnik, ed. Daniel Gethmann, 231-248, Bielefeld: transcript.

2010. “First person plural: Roman Jakobson's grammatical fictions”. Studies in East European Thought 62: 217-236.

2009 (ed. with Pnina Avidar and Raviv Ganchrow). Immersed. Sound and Architecture. OASE Tijdschrift voor Architectuur / Journal for Architecture, vol. 78.

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