Jennifer Chu

Jennifer Chu is a Ph.D. student in music history at Yale University. Originally from Albuquerque, NM, she received a Bachelor of Arts in history and a Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the University of New Mexico, and she also earned a Master of Music degree in musicology from the University of Texas at Austin where she wrote a thesis on music in an 18th-century New Orleans convent. Her current research interests include musical hybridity, globalization, transnational and diasporic studies, critical theory and 20th c. popular and experimental music, with a particular interest.