Department of Fine and Performing Arts

Faculty: Anne Swartz

Anne Swartz (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of Music at Baruch College and the Graduate Center. She served as Director of Graduate Studies, Weissman School of Arts and Sciences (1999-2001).  Her research interests include Russian and East European music, especially that of Chopin, Szymanowska, and Tchaikovsky; Russian romanticism; and eighteenth-century serf musicians.  She has conducted seminars in Russian and Polish at St. Petersburg University and the University of Warsaw and continues original archival research in Poland and Russia.  Recent selected publications include a critical edition, Women Composers Born Between 1700 and 1799: Maria Szymanowska  (New York and London: Macmillan, 1998); Reprint edition, Maria Szymanowska (Bryn Mawr, 1998); and scholarly articles and chapters in Chopin Studies 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Heart of the Nation: Polish Literature and Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993); Tchaikovsky and His Contemporaries (London: Greenwood Press, 1999); Encomium Musicae: Essays in Memory of Robert J. Snow  (New York: Pendragon Press, 2002); Cahiers du Monde Russe (2002); The Polish Review  (2002); and De Musica (2003).  She has received research grants and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies; and East European Program); National Endowment for Humanities (Summer Stipend; Interpretive Grant; Special Opportunity for Archival Research; Travel to Collections); American Council of Learned Societies; The International Research and Exchanges Board; and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She received Baruch's 2001 Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching.