Fellows » Current Fellows » IHUM Fellow: Hayoung Heidi Lee, PhD
Hayoung Heidi Lee received her Ph.D. in Musicology from Stanford University. Her primary research interests are German opera and musical aesthetics, transnational literary exchange on the operatic stage, and European-Asian musical encounters of the eighteenth century. Her dissertation, "Papageno's Legacy: Opera and the Marvelous in the Era of German Romanticism" examined how the juxtaposition of fairy tale and local comedy in Mozart's The Magic Flute served as an aesthetic paradigm for subsequent German-language operas of the early Romantic period.
Heidi was a recipient of the Mellon Dissertation Fellowship and the Free University Berlin Exchange Fellowship. At Stanford, she served as a coordinator of the Humanities Center research workshop, Music, Aesthetics and Critical Theory (2003-7) and as a consultant for the Center for Teaching and Learning (2006-9). She received her M.A. in Music History and B.A. in Music and Comparative Literature from the University of Washington.
Off campus, Heidi teaches piano to young children, plays chamber music with friends and enjoys tending her vegetable garden.