Melanie Plesch

Melanie Plesch is a professor of musicology at the University of Melbourne. She holds degrees in music performance, music education, and musicology from her native Argentina and a PhD in historical musicology from the University of Melbourne. Her work focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Argentine art music and its intersections with vernacular and popular music, literature, and the visual arts. Her publications include monographs, edited books, book chapters, and scholarly articles in international journals such as The Musical Quarterly, Acta Musicologica, and Patterns of Prejudice. The recipient of various international research grants, in 2015 she held a research visitorship at the University of Oxford as part of Reinhard Strohm’s Balzan Project “Towards a Global History of Music.” She has edited dossiers on topic theory and Latin American music for the Portuguese Journal of Musicology (2017) and the Argentinian Música e Investigación (2020). In 2019 she was elected a corresponding fellow of the Argentine National Academy of the Arts.