Devin Burke
Biography
Devin Burke is an Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Louisville School of Music, where he is also Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Coordinator of the Musicologies concentration. His research focuses on intersections between early modern opera and discourses of visual culture, colonialism, and idolatry. Much of his scholarship connects to the histories of embodiment and disability studies. His work has appeared in publications including Early Music and the Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, and his current book project reexamines the eighteenth-century fascination with the myth of Pygmalion to shed new light on the impacts of that fascination on the history of music and knowledge.
Dr. Burke is also a commited educator whose teaching and mentorship has been recognized at UofL with the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Master’s Students Award, Student Champion recognition (2021, 2024), and Faculty Favorite nominations (2018, 2021). He is the creator of the Music History Globetrotting Project, a digital resource designed to contribute to the pedagogies of global music history and anticolonialism.
Research Interests
Music and visual culture, opera, film music/sound, musical borrowing and adaptation, music and idolatry, music and politics, early music, Jean-Philippe Rameau, music and disability studies, music in wartime
Degrees and Certifications
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, , 2011-2016
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, , 2008-2011
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, , 2005-2008
Lawrence University, Appleton, , 1999-2004
Lawrence University, Appleton, , 1999-2004