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Dr. Rebecca D. Geoffroy-Schwinden

Associate Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology

(570) 498-3757

Email: Rebecca.Geoffroy-Schwinden@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Duke University, 2015
    Major: Music
    Specialization: Musicology
    Dissertation: Politics, the French Revolution, and Performance: Parisian Musicians as an Emergent Professional Class, 1749-1802
  • MA, Duke University, 2011
    Major: Music
    Specialization: Musicology
  • BA, Penn State University, 2007
    Major: International Studies
    Dissertation: with honors in history
  • BA, Schreyer Honors College, Penn State University, 2007
    Major: History
    Specialization: with honors in history

Professional Memberships

  • Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. (2012 - Present).
  • American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. (2011 - Present).
  • American Musicological Society. (2008 - Present).
  • Society for Ethnomusicology. (2014 - 2018).
  • International Musicological Society. (2016 - 2017).
  • Society for French Historical Studies. (2016 - 2017).
  • Aphra Behn Society for Women in the Arts, 1660–1830. (2012 - 2014).

Development Activities

  • Workshop, Grantsmanship, University of North Texas. Denton,TX,United States of America. (December 9, 2019 - December 9, 2019).
  • Seminar, Teaching Excellence Seminar, UNT Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign. United States of America. (August 20, 2015).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • MUCS 3100Z - Critical Studies in Music and Society Colloquium, 4 courses.
  • MUCS 4000 - Senior Capstone in Critical Studies in Music and Society, 1 course.
  • MUGC 5950 - Master's Thesis, 11 courses.
  • MUGC 6900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • MUGC 6950 - Doctoral Dissertation, 13 courses.
  • MUMH 4070 - Operatic Literature, 1 course.
  • MUMH 4770 - Choral Literature, 5 courses.
  • MUMH 5010 - Introduction to Research in Music, 8 courses.
  • MUMH 5030 - Advanced Issues in Music Research, 2 courses.
  • MUMH 5110 - History of Opera, 1 course.
  • MUMH 5341 - Western Music History, 1700 1800, 5 courses.
  • MUMH 5711 - Seminar in Musicology, 1 course.
  • MUMH 6000 - Seminar in Musicology, 2 courses.
  • MUMH 6030 - Professional Development in Musicology, 1 course.
  • MUMH 6750 - Classical Music, 2 courses.
  • MUMH 6900 - Special Problems, 4 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Seminar, Eastman School of Music, (September 27, 2019 - September 27, 2019).
  • Seminar, Florida State University, (November 7, 2018 - November 7, 2018).

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (April 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (January 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Women violinists," Instrumental Studies. (2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Memento Musica 1897: Music, Death, and a Secret Concert in the Paris Catacombs," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (August 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "Representations of Disability as Otherness in 17th-Century Venetian Opera," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "Sounding Britain, Crafting Self: Handel, Imperial Identities, and Eighteenth-Century Lives of Empire," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (2020).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "Music of Augsburg: The Cultural Impact of Civic Musicians in Early Modern Germany," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (2018).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (March 2023 - May 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (August 2017 - May 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (August 2018 - January 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (January 2022 - August 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "Saxophone Instruction by Women: Experiences of Achieving the Rank of Full Professor at Post-Secondary Institutions in the United States," Instrumental Studies. (January 2023 - April 2023).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (August 2020 - 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Staging and Opera Reform in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (September 2018 - 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, ""On the Precipice: Examining Generic Convention and Innovation in Thermidorian Opera through Sapho (1794)"," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (May 2020 - November 2021).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Instrumental Studies. (December 2020 - April 2021).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Composition Studies. (November 2020 - April 2021).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Instrumental Studies. (November 2020 - April 2021).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Instrumental Studies. (November 2020 - April 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, ""Chicago Renaissance Women: Black Feminism in the Careers and Art Songs of Florence Price and Margaret Bonds"," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (March 2020 - April 2021).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (September 2017 - April 2021).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "" 'The Other Half is Mine': Charlotte Moorman as an Architect of the Avant-Garde"," Instrumental Studies. (September 2017 - April 2021).
  • Related Field Professor, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (February 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, ""The Emergence of the Subconscious in Erik Satie's "Parade": The Search for Surrealism in Sound"," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (September 2019 - 2020).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (2019 - 2020).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Clementi's Symphonies: A Reception History," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (April 2018 - August 2020).
  • Related Field Professor, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (January 2020).
  • Related Field Professor (Related Field Examiner), Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (September 2018 - December 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Transatlantic Crossings: The Influence of Composer and Pedagogue Nadia Boulanger on the Writings and Works of Composer Marion Bauer," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (April 2018 - 2019).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "An Analysis of Emma Diruf Seiler’s Teaching Philosophy and Contribution to Voice Pedagogy," Vocal Studies. (November 2017 - 2019).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (October 2019 - November 2019).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Bridging the Fantastical Gap: Dread and the Uncanny in the Score of It Follows," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (April 2018 - November 2019).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "Beyond the Binary: The Intersection of Gender and Cross-cultural Identity in Reena Esmail’s Life and Choral Works," Conducting and Ensembles. (November 2017 - March 2019).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "The Historical and Pedagogical Significance of Excerpts by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741–1813)," Vocal Studies. (April 2016 - March 2019).
  • Other (Related Field Examiner), Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (October 2018 - January 2019).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (April 2016 - December 2018).
  • Major Professor, Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (September 2016 - November 2018).
  • Supervised Research, "Cochlear Implants and the Humanities," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (November 2017 - May 2018).
  • Dissertation Committee Co-Chair, "Musical Time and Memory: A Bergsonian Interpretation of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Prelude Op. 32, No. 10 in B minor," Keyboard Studies. (September 2016 - April 2018).
  • Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Vocal Studies. (April 2016 - April 2018).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Depicting Affect through Text, Music, and Gesture in Venetian Opera, c. 1640–1658," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (January 2016 - March 2018).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Listening in the Living Room: The Pursuit of Authentic Spaces and Sound in Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) Do it Yourself (DIY) Punk," Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. (December 2017).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Composition Studies. (November 2017).
  • Related Field Professor, Conducting and Ensembles. (April 2017).
  • Related Field Professor (Substitute), Vocal Studies. (April 2017).
  • Supervised Research, "Etienne-Nicolas Méhul," Music Education. (April 2017).
  • GAC Degree Recital Committee Member, Keyboard Studies. (April 22, 2017).
  • Related Field Professor, Instrumental Studies. (April 2016).

Awards and Honors

  • Lewis Lockwood Award, American Musicological Society. (November 11, 2023).
  • Centenary Prize, Music and Letters. (November 2018).
  • Society of Duke Fellows, Duke University. (August 2009).
  • Phi Beta Kappa Society, Penn State University. (May 2007).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (2022). From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution. 336. New York, Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/from-servant-to-savant-9780197511510?cc=ca&lang=en&

    • Book Chapter

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2023). Madame Campan’s Portrait, or Self-Portrait of a Feminist Musicologist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Art and Music. 53–68. Bloomsbury Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Lingold, M., Mueller, D., Trettien, W. (2018). Digital Approaches to Historical Acoustemologies: Replication and Reenactment. Digital Sound Studies. 231–49. Durham, NC, Duke University Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Beaurepaire, P., Bourdin, P., Wolff, C. (2018). The Revolution of Jommelli's Objets d'art: Bernard Sarrette's Acquisition of Musical Manuscripts for the Bibliothèque du Conservatoire. Moving Scenes: The Circulation of Music and Theatre in Europe, 1700–1815. 61–76. Oxford, Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, Voltaire Foundation.

    • Book Review

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2022). Review. Mélanie Traversier. L’harmonica de verre et miss Davies. Essai sur la mécanique du succès au siècle des Lumières. French Studies. 76 (4) 674–5. French Studies. Oxford University Press..
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2022). Review. Hedy Law. Music, Pantomime & Freedom in Enlightenment France. Eighteenth-Century Music. 19 (2) 205–7. Eighteenth-Century Music. Cambridge University Press.
  • , R.D. (2020). Review of Emily H. Green, Dedicating Music, 1785–1850. Revue de musicologie. Revue de musicologie. 106, no. 2 534–6.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2019). Review of Olivia Bloechl, Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter. 33 (Spring 2019) 9–10.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. Review of R. J. Arnold, Musical Debate and Political Culture in France, 1700–1800. Music & Letters. Music & Letters. 99, no. 1 (2018) 124–6. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). Review of Mark Darlow, Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opéra, 1789–1794. Eighteenth-Century Music. 11 (1) 115–118. Cambridge, Cambridge Journals.

    • Critical Review

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2023). Paisajes Sonoros Histórico/Historical Soundscapes. 4 (5)
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (2020). Conference Report. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Denver, March 21–23, 2019.. Eighteenth-Century Music. Eighteenth-Century Music. 17, no. 1 138–40. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

    • Encyclopedia Article

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Miller, M., Heidlberger, F.M., Heidlberger, F.M. (2021). Etienne-Nicolas Méhul. Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber-Verlag.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Heidlberger, F.M., Heidlberger, F.M. (2021). François-Joseph Gossec. Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber-Verlag.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Heidlberger, F.M., Heidlberger, F.M. (2021). Jean-François Lesueur. Lexikon des Orchesters. Laaber-Verlag.

    • Journal Article

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2019). Music as Feminine Capital in Napoleonic France: Nancy Macdonald's Musical Upbringing. Music & Letters. 100 (2) 302–334. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2018). Music, Copyright, and Intellectual Property during the French Revolution: A Newly Discovered Letter from André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry. Transposition: Musique et sciences sociales. 7 17. Paris, l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales et la Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris. http://journals.openedition.org/transposition/2057
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2017). A Lady-in-Waiting's Account of Marie Antoinette's Musical Politics: Women, Music, and the French Revolution. Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. 21 72–100. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). Horrific Opera, Aesthetic Violence: Genere in Dario Argento's Opera (1987). Kinetophone. 1 15–34. Lisbon, “Listening to the moving images: new interdisciplinary methodologies for the study of sound and music on Portuguese cinema and media”, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) and developed at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)..
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). Rousseau and the Revolutionary Repertoire. Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture. 43 89–110. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press.

    • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (2019). La Bohème at the Dallas Opera. Opera News. New York, Metropolitan Opera Guild. https://www.operanews.com/
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2019). Carmen at the Dallas Opera. Opera News. 83 New York, Metropolitan Opera Guild.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2018). La Traviata at the Dallas Opera. New York, NY, Metropolitan Opera Guild.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2018). Samson et Dalila at the Dallas Opera. 36. New York, NY, Metropolitan Opera Guild.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2017). Norma at the Dallas Opera. Opera News. 44. New York, NY, Metropolitan Opera Guild.

    • Newsletter

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2020). Teaching ‘1700–1800’ in 2020. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter. 36 (Fall 2020) 5–6. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2016). To the illustrious members of our learned society.... Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter. 3. Society for Eighteenth-Century Music.

    • Scholarly Preface

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2015). Adolph Charles Adam, Si j'étais roi (Overtüre). Musikproduktion Jürgen Höflich.
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, La rosière républicaine (Ballettmusik). Musikproduktion Jürgen Höflich.

    • Webpage

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (2014). Organs of the Soul: Sonic Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris. Provoke! Digital Edition. Durham, NC, Duke University PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge. http://sites.fhi.duke.edu/soundbox/the-collection-provoke/.

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Music and Sound Studies Colloquium, Property, Revolution, & Music Futures, Cornell University Department of Music, VIrtual, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Center for Premodern Studies Lecture Series, Unraveling Ornaments: Music, Fashion, and Revolution, ca. 1790, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Author & Presenter), Natural Resource, National Domain: Music and Science after the Reign of Terror, Cambridge University Sound Studies Reading Group, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Revolutionary Researchers Network, The Interstices between Institutions and Individuals: Masonic Lodges, Professional Musicians, and the French Revolution, King's College London, London, England, United Kingdom. (2016).

    • Keynote/Plenary Address

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Induction of Pi Delta Phi, French National Honor Society, Madame Campan's School for Girls: Women, Music Education, and the French Revolution, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, United States of America. (2014).

    • Lecture

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Bach's Lunch Series, How People Listened in Mozart’s Lifetime, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Dallas, TX, United States of America. (2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Marie Antoinette Salon Series, Marie Antoinette’s Musical Legacies, Opera Lafayette, New York, NY (Virtual), United States of America. (2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Author & Presenter), After 5:00 Lecture Series, Listening to Women Musicians in the Age of Beethoven, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2020).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Author & Presenter), GAMuT Symposium, From Servant to Savant, GAMuT, Virtual, United States of America. (2021).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Musical Mechanization and the Revolutionary Industrial Agenda: The Advisory Board for Arts and Trades, 1791–1807, National Science and Media Museum, Brandford, England (Virtual), United Kingdom. (2020).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Discussant), GAMuT, Workshop on Crafting Effective Abstracts, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, Denton, TX (Virtual), United States of America. (2020).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), French and Atlantic Revolutions Seminar, From Servant to Savant: Privilege, Musical Property, and the French Revolution, French and Atlantic Revolutions Seminar, Virtual, United Kingdom. (2020).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Presenter), Primary Sources as Pedagogy in the Music History Classroom, Thomas Jefferson's Music Library, CNY Humanities Corridor and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Presenter), Artifacts in Music and Media History, Pétition adressée à l'Assemblée nationale par les auteurs et éditeurs de musique, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, Germany. (2019 - 2019).

    • Other

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Discussant), Dissertations-in-Progress Session, Joel Schnackel, “Johann Sperger’s Catalogue of Dispersed Musical Works", Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Virtual, United States of America. (2020).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Presenter), GAMuT, Crafting Curriculum Vitae, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, United States of America. (2018).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Bringing the affective colonial to the material cosmopolitan in "European" music, American Musicological Society, Denver, Colorado, United States of America. (2023).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Chair), Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Mobility, Media, and Money in Early Modern Popular Music, American Musicological Society, Denver, Colorado, United States of America. (2023).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Panelist), Context 2023: Equity and Inclusion in Music, Innovative Curriculum Building at the UNT College of Music, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, United States of America. (2023).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Coordinator/Organizer), Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Chair), Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Grove Music Online’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality Project: A Roundtable on (Re)Writing Women and Encyclopedism in Eighteenth-Century Music Research, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Denton, Texas, United States of America. (2023).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Coordinator/Organizer), Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Revolutionary Disputes at the Borders of Privilege and Property, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Starkville, MS, United States of America. (2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Discussant), Windsor Symphony Orchestra Listening Club, Haydn's "Sturm und Drang", Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Windsor, Ontario (Virtual), Canada. (2020).
  • Feustle, M. (Presenter), Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Presenter), Hawkins, K. (Presenter), Murphy, J.P. (Presenter), UNT First Chair Chats, Music Copyright, UNT Music Library, Online, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Panelist), Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Political Revolutions and their Musical Outcomes, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Panelist), Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Digital Pedagogy and Methods, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Boston, MA, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Panelist), Annual Meeting, The Digital Humanities and Global Eighteenth Century, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Denver, CO, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Coordinator/Organizer), Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Music and Mobility, Mozart Society of America/Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Coordinator/Organizer), Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Multimodal Music, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Denver, CO, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Panelist), Annual Meeting, Rethinking Enlightenment, American Musicological Society, San Antonio, TX, United States of America. (2018).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Panelist), GAMuT, Broadening Horizons: Interdisciplinary Research in Music Scholarship, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, United States of America. (2018).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Panelist), GAMuT, Workshop on the Academic Job Market, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2017).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Panelist), Student Collaborator's Bill of Rights, Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2017).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Discussant), GAMuT, Workshop on Archival and Field Research, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (2017).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Coordinator/Organizer), Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Chair), Annual Meeting, Eighteenth-Century Freemasonry and the Arts, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America. (2016).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Coordinator/Organizer), Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Chair), Annual Conference, Music, Spectacle, and War from Revolutionary to Interwar France, Society for French Historical Studies, Nashville, TN, United States of America. (2016).

    • Paper

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), France, Musiques, Cultures, 1789–1918, Fashion, Musical Taste, and the French Revolution: Journal de la mode et du goût, France, Musiques, Cultures, 1789–1918, Venice, Italy. (2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, On n’a pas besoin de mon pièce: The Contested Borders of Musical Property during the French Revolution, Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Starkville, MS, United States of America. (2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, An Inhabited Approach to Music and the Enlightenment, Denver, CO, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting, Music as Feminine Capital in Napoleonic France, American Musicological Society, Rochester, NY, United States of America. (2017).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Music and the Body Between Revolutions: Paris, 1789–1848, Music and the French Body Politic in Festivals of the French Revolution, Columbia Society of Fellows and Université Paris 8—Institut universitaire de France, Heyman Center for the Humanities, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), 20th Congress of the International Musicological Society, Chabanon's Music Philosophy as a Way of Life, International Musicological Society, Tokyo, Japan, Japan. (2017).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Network in Francophone Music Criticism Annual Conference, "The zeal of a musician": Plights of Professionalization in the Revolutionary Conservatoire, Biblioth`èque Historique de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, France. (2016).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Music History and Cosmopolitanism, Cosmopolitan Capital: Musicians, Masonic Affiliation, and Social Class in Late Eighteenth-Century Paris, Fourth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History, University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki, Finaland, Finland. (2016).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Pre-Conference Symposium on Music, Property, and Law, Vive le son: Revolutionary Musicians as Intellectual Proprietors (1749–1799), Society for Ethnomusicology, Austin, TX, United States of America. (2015).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Les circulations musicales et théâtrales en Europe (1750–1815), Bernard Sarrette and the Acquisition of Musical Manuscripts for the Biblioth`èque du Conservatoire (1798–1800), Centre de la Méditerranée Moderne et Contemporaine-MSHS, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, France. (2014).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), National Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Sound and Silence in Festivals of the French Revolution: Sonic Analysis in History", Historical Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America. (2014).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting, Mobilizing the Social Network: Revolutionary Musicians and the Birth of French Romanticism, American Musicological Society, Milwaukee, WI, United States of America. (2014).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting, "Organs of the Soul": An Archive of Sonic Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, VA, United States of America. (2014).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Genre et création dans l'histoire: arts vivants, art de vivre, L'école des jeunes filles de Madame Campan: musique, performance et genre au lendemain de la Révolution française, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, France. (2013).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Biennial Meeting of the Aphra Behn Society for Women and the Arts, 1660–1830, Madame Campan's Music Curriculum for Girls: Post-Terror Discipline of the Female Body, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, United States of America. (2013).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Opera and Cinema: The Politics of an Encounter, Horror of Opera, Beauty of Violence: Dario Argento's Terror at the Opera (1987), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Theatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon, Portugal, Portugal. (2012).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, "Il y a des langues favorables à la liberté": A Singing Parisian Society and Rousseau's Philosophy of Music, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Panel, San Antonio, TX, United States of America. (2012).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Lyrica Society Harvard Dialogues, La Petite Porte "Secrette": Les Visitandines and Anti-clericailsm during the French Revolution, Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America. (2011).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Asylum: A Paris in the Wilderness, Stockton College, Pomona, NJ, United States of America. (2007).

    • Professional Meeting Contribution

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Chair), Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Ninth Biennial Conference, The 18th Century British Isles, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Virtual, United States of America. (2021).

    • Scholarly Meeting Contribution

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Coordinator/Organizer), Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Chair), Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Author & Presenter), Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Music as Property since 1789, American Musicological Society, Virtual, United States of America. (2021).

Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits

  • Curatorial Work. Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., "Revolution à la Mode: French Fashion Magazines c. 1785-1792", Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America. (September 2022 - March 2023).

Media Contributions

    Internet

  • "“Classical Music, Privilege, and Ghosts of the French Revolution”," Oxford University Press Blog. (July 1, 2022).
  • "From Servant to Savant: Musical Privilege, Property, and the French Revolution," New Books Network Podcast. (May 11, 2022).
  • "“Rebecca Geoffroy-Schwinden’s From Servant to Savant”," The Page 99 Test. (February 17, 2022).
  • "Local Archives, Global History: Music and Archival Practice in the 21st Century," Blog post. (August 2021).
  • "Women Musicians in the Age of Beethoven," OLLI at UNT Podcast. (February 2021).
  • "Three Questions," (February 19, 2019).

    • TV

  • "Thought Leaders in the Arts," Arts Engines. (July 2022).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Henry Belin du Pont Fellowship," sponsored by Hagley Museum & Library, National, $3200 Funded. (2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., "NEH-Hagley Fellowship in Business, Culture, and Society," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities and Hagley Museum and Library, National, $40000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R. (Principal), "Washington DC Faculty Fellow," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, Funded. ( - 2020).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R., "CREATE Program," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," University of North Texas, $3500 Funded. (2018 - 2018).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Junior Faculty Summer Research Support Award," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Ottis Green Fellowship," sponsored by Duke University Graduate School, Other, $21580 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Summer Research Fellowship," sponsored by Duke University Graduate School, Other, $5000 Funded. (2014 - 2014).

    • Grant - Research

  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., Wright, B.F., Virani, V., Snyder, B., Sella, T., Dietlinger, B., "Team Mentoring Grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Summer Stipend," sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $6000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," University of North Texas, $2200 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Exploratory Research Grant," sponsored by Hagley Museum & Library, National, $400 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R., "M. Elizabeth C. Bartlett Grant for Research in France," sponsored by American Musicological Society, National, $2100 Funded. (2019 - 2019).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D., "Conference Support Program," sponsored by UNT Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (2017 - 2017).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Supporting), Youngs, J. (Principal), "I-GRO, GAMES," sponsored by UNT International, University of North Texas, $3200 Funded. (2016 - 2016).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R.D. (Principal), "Membership and Professional Development Grant," sponsored by American Musicological Society, International, $200 Funded. ( - 2014).
  • Geoffroy-Schwinden, R., "M. Elizabeth C. Bartlett Grant for Research in France," sponsored by American Musicological Society, National, Funded. (2019 - 2019).

Service

University Service

  • Member, NEH Summer Stipend. (August 29, 2023 - Present).
  • Faculty Mentor, Music History. (August 2022 - Present).
  • Committee Member, Advancement Board. (2022 - 2023).
  • Program Coordinator, Critical Studies in Music and Society. (August 2022 - June 2023).
  • Chairperson, Lecture Committee. (August 2022 - May 2023).
  • Committee Member, GADCoM. (March 2023 - April 2023).
  • Committee Member, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee. (January 2023 - April 2023).
  • Committee Member, Ethnomusicology Search Committee. (September 2022 - April 2023).
  • Committee Member, Senior Lecturer in Music History Search Committee. (November 2022 - February 2023).
  • Committee Member, Small Grants Committee. (2020 - 2021).
  • Committee Member, Faculty Advisory Committee. (August 2020 - May 2021).
  • Faculty Advisor, Graduate Association of Musicologists und Theorists. (August 2020 - May 2021).
  • Program Organizer, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Reading Group. (August 2020 - May 2021).
  • Committee Member, MHTE Lecture Committee. (June 2020 - May 2021).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Council, College of Music. (August 2017 - May 2020).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Performance Degree Committee, College of Music. (August 2017 - May 2019).
  • Committee Member, Monteverdi Scholarship Committee. (March 2019 - March 2019).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Music History. (December 2018 - March 2019).
  • Committee Member, Ricco Ethics Awards Committee. (February 2019 - February 2019).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor in English. (October 2018 - February 2019).
  • Committee Member, University Writing Committee. (August 2016 - May 2018).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Council, College of Music. (January 2017 - May 2017).
  • Committee Member, Small Grants Committee, College of Music. (August 2016 - May 2017).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Performance Degree Committee, College of Music. (September 2016 - December 2016).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee, Senior Lecturer in Music, Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology. (August 2015 - March 2016).

Public Service

  • Guest Speaker (Ravel's String Quartet as Threshold), Dallas Chamber Music Society. Dallas, Texas. (November 19, 2018).
  • Guest Speaker ("A Quartet for Lovers"), Dallas Chamber Music Society. Dallas, Texas. (February 26, 2018).
  • Guest Speaker (Musical Genealogies: From Haydn's String Quartets to Brahms's Piano Quintet), Dallas Chamber Music Society. Dallas, Texas. (November 13, 2017).

Professional Service

  • Editor, Associate Editor, Grove Music Online. (October 2022 - Present).
  • Chairperson, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music DEIA Research Working Group. (November 2020 - October 2023).
  • Committee Member, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Committee for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility. (May 2020 - October 2023).
  • Conference-Related, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. Denton, Texas. (October 8, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Book, University of California Press. (September 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Cambridge Opera Journal. (April 2023).
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. (2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Entremons: UPF Journal of World History. (2022 - 2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. (2022).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Music & Letters. (2021).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Center. (2021).
  • Board of Advisors, Sonic Dictionary. Durham, NC. (August 2015 - April 2021).
  • Officer, Vice President, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music. (November 2018 - November 2020).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies. (July 2020).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. (2018 - 2019).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. (May 2019 - August 2019).
  • Other (Book Reviews Editor), Ars Lyrica: Journal of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations. Cambridge, MA. (January 2017 - January 2018).
  • Other (Reviewer, Digital Project), Small Axe Archipelagos. (2017).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Les Cahiers de la Société québécoise de recherche en musique. (2016).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Student Paper Award, Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Biennial Conference. Austin, Texas. (February 28, 2016).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of the American Musicological Society. (2014).
  • Committee Member, Fliegelman Mentorship Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. (March 2014).

Consulting

  • Academic, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, United States of America. (July 2019).