Hannah Schiller

Hannah Rosa Schiller is a PhD candidate in Music History. Her research primarily engages with and contributes to scholarship in music studies, gender studies, and cultural studies. Her dissertation, titled “Pop time: gender and temporality in Anglo-American pop music industries,” considers how mainstream pop music’s temporal framings have shaped the ways pop stars sound; the ways fans consume and remember pop music; and the ways pop labels frame and pitch artists. Through case studies analyzing the careers of Madonna, the Spice Girls, Lady Gaga, and others, Hannah theorizes how the feminization of mainstream pop music is imbricated with its framings as a fleeting, ephemeral, and cyclical space of cultural production.

Originally from Chicago, Hannah completed her undergraduate studies in Music Theory and Psychology at Northwestern University and earned an MSt in Musicology from Merton College, University of Oxford. Her doctoral research has been supported by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the A. Bartlett Giamatti Memorial Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities Fund.