Tekla Babyak

Independent Scholar

Biographical Sketch: Tekla Babyak (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014) is an independent musicologist and critical theorist based in Davis, CA. She is an advocate for the fuller inclusion of independent and disabled scholars in academic communities. She is hoping to be invited to give guest lectures, departmental colloquia, and keynotes - activities from which disabled independent scholars are traditionally excluded. She is interested in hermeneutics, disability studies, and philosophical aesthetics in 19th-century German and French music. Her research also examines temporalities of regeneration in music and philosophy. Her work has recently appeared or will soon appear in Historians Without Borders (Routledge), Rethinking Brahms (Oxford University Press), and Bibliotheca Dantesca.