Christopher Chowrimootoo

Christopher Chowrimootoo is an Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Notre Dame. His research is located at the intersection between the history, historiography and aesthetics of musical modernism, and seeks to put pressure on common assumptions about a so-called “great divide” between modernism and mass culture. This involves reviving mid-twentieth-century ideas about “middlebrow” culture and aesthetics, as well as offering materialist revisions to traditional modernist histories.

Chowrimootoo has degrees in musicology from Oxford (BA, MA, MSt) and Harvard (AM, PhD). His publications include articles and essays in Eighteenth-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Opera Quarterly, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Twentieth-Century Music. His article "Bourgeois Opera: Death in Venice and the Aesthetics of Sublimation" was awarded both the Royal Musical Association's Jerome Roche Prize (for a distinguished article by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career) and the Kurt Weill Foundation Prize (for outstanding scholarship in music theater since 1900).