Theodore Gracyk

Theodore Gracyk was born in San Rafael, California, and received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, Davis. He currently teaches at Minnesota State University Moorhead. From 2013 to 2023, he was co-editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He is the author of five philosophical books on music, co-author of another, and has authored numerous articles on the aesthetics of music and the history of aesthetics. "Making Meaning in Popular Song" received the 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize of the American Society for Aesthetics. He was co-recipient of the 2002 Woody Guthrie Award (the 2002 IASPM/US Book Award) for "I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity." With Andrew Kania, he co-edited "The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music" (2011). He has been a department chair, an acting college dean, and from 2011 to 2015, he served as President of the Faculty at his university.