Camilla Cai specializes in the musicology of Germany and Scandinavia. She is the author of Ole Bull: Norway's Romantic Musician and Cosmopolitan Patriot, as well as several other books, and book chapters, on such musicians as Johannes Brahms, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn, and Clara Schumann.

In 1997-98, Cai was a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, Norway. During her fellowship, she researched Norwegian-American music, which is the subject of her book in progress. With a special interest in women's music, Cai taught a course at Kenyon on the subject and conducts research on the relationship between gender and music.

Areas of Expertise

Musicology (the study of music history) in the nineteenth century, music and gender

Education

Boston University Ph.D.
Harvard University M.A.
Oberlin Conservatory B.M.

Courses Taught

MUSC 102 Introduction to Music History
MUSC 204 Music History: 19th Century
MUSC 205 Music History: 20th Century
MUSC 303 Women and Music
MUSC 304 Current Issues in Music
MUSC 308 Brahms and His Times