Doug Shadle

Dr. Douglas Shadle (Ph.D., M.A., Musicology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a lecturer in music history at the University of Louisville, where he currently teaches music appreciation to non-music majors. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, he earned a B.M. in Viola Performance, summa cum laude, from the University of Houston  Moores School of Music in 2004.

A specialist in American classical music, Dr. Shadle is currently completing a book on American symphonies composed during the nineteenth century. He has contributed articles on related topics to the forthcoming edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, the online American history journal Common-place (2008), The Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America (2010), and Foreign Musicians in Paris: A Web Resource edited by Annegret Fauser. During the spring and summer of 2010, he collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of scholars at the University of North Carolina on an NEH-funded digital humanities project about the life and times of a UNC student in the 1840s; his interactive web-based essay stemming from the project is forthcoming.

Shadle’s other research interests include African-American sacred music, the Gregorian chant revival, and French modernism, and he has presented on these subjects at the national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship. His essay on Olivier Messiaen and the Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain recently appeared in a collection entitled Messiaen the Theologian (Ashgate, 2010).