Joan Titus (NHC Fellow, 2023–24)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2023–24

Joan Titus drafted two and outlined the remaining chapters for her book in progress, Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Thaw Cinema. She also worked on several other projects, including overseeing final production of her book Dmitry Shostakovich and Music for Stalinist Cinema (Oxford University Press) which is slated for release in 2024. She also continued work on her edited volume, Redressing the Global in Music for Cinema, for which she edited chapters and submitted a book proposal; and she began work on two new book projects. One is her fourth monograph, Sounding Red: Musical Imaginings of Russia in US Cinema, for which she won the Virgil Thomson Fellowship from the Society for American Music in 2024; and the other is tentatively titled Listening to Pain, which concerns disability and sound studies. Her article “Music and Sound for Slavic and East European Cinema” was written and accepted for publication for Oxford Bibliographies Online (forthcoming, 2024).