Biography
Emily Shyr earned a PhD in Musicology from Duke University (2025) and holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and Columbia University. Her dissertation, "The Romantic Sublime in the Late Works of Franz Schubert," synthesizes musicology with art history, the natural sciences, and literary theory to reconceive the possibilities of music’s engagement with the sublime. Her publications include articles in 19th-Century Music and Vienna Schubert Studies, as well as essays in Gabriel Fauré: Influences and Influence (Boydell, 2026) and Unity in Variety: Essays in Musicology for R. Larry Todd (Hollizter, 2024), and reviews in Eighteenth-Century Music, Journal of Musicological Research, Notes, and other journals. She has been awarded grants by the Fulbright Commission (Germany, 2021-22), Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalization (OeAD), and the American Musicological Society. She has presented papers and lecture-recitals at international conferences in the U.S., U.K., and Europe, and her research extends to the music of the Schumanns, Felix Mendelssohn, and Gabriel Fauré. She previously taught at Duke University, North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where she taught both oboe and music history.