Holly Watkins

Holly Watkins (Col ’94, Grad ’96) has received a 2014-15 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship to support work on her upcoming book, Echoes of the Nonhuman: Organicism, Biology, and Musical Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present. The book explores why 19th-century writers on music tended to compare music to the growth of plants or to other aspects of the nonhuman world. Ms. Watkins is an associate professor of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music.