Hannah Waterman, PhD Candidate

Hannah Waterman is a Ph.D candidate in Critical Music Studies. In 2019, she received a B.Mus with honors in music theory from UT Arlington. Her dissertation, “Imaginary Sound Worlds In Early Modern Scientific Thought,” argues that exercises in speculative music theory drove new modes of knowledge production in the early seventeenth century. She also uses critical theory to develop new approaches to the analysis of popular music and Internet culture. The recipient of the 2023 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, Waterman has taught courses in music theory, music history, and writing. She is also an active performer on the Baroque cello. Currently, Waterman is working as the Graduate Assistant at the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook.