Education
- Ph.D., Musicology, Indiana University, 2022
- M.A., Musicology, Indiana University, 2012
- B.M., Music Education, University of Houston, 2010
- B.A., Spanish, University of Houston, 2010
Christine Wisch is adjunct lecturer in music in music in general studies/musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She also teaches in its Latin American Music Center.
A graduate of IU’s musicology program with a minor in ethnomusicology, Wisch’s primary research focuses on nineteenth-century Spain and issues of nationalism, patronage, and gender. Her work on women in mid-nineteenth-century Spanish salons will be published in a forthcoming Cambridge volume, and she is also in the process of developing a book that looks at musical production in 1830s Madrid.
Her research has been presented internationally at conferences in Spain and Poland and at conferences in the United States, including meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, and the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music. As an instructor and researcher, Wisch has cultivated deep interests in pedagogy and historiography, and she worked as a research consultant on Hispanic topics for the most recent edition of W. W. Norton’s History of Western Music edited by J. Peter Burkholder.
Wisch is a dedicated educator with over a decade of higher education teaching experience. At the Jacobs School of Music, she has taught courses ranging from music history surveys to specialized topic courses on chamber music, women musicians, and Latin American art music. Her course for Music in General Studies, “Women Musicians,” provides a historical survey of women’s musical contributions while also critically examining the unique challenges and opportunities gender has created from the Medieval period through the present.
Wisch is also active in the realm of public musicology and enjoys working with arts organizations on audience engagement projects. In addition to giving pre-concert lectures and hosting post-concert talkbacks, she frequently writes program notes for orchestras across the country. A classically trained violinist, she remains an active musician, performing most frequently with the Bloomington (IN) Symphony and Orchestra Santa Monica.
In addition to her appointment at the Jacobs School, Wisch is an adjunct lecturer at the Philip G. Hagemann Performing Arts Department at the University of Southern Indiana in Evansville, Indiana, where she also serves as a board member of the Society for the Arts and Humanities.