BGSU professor to be Fulbright lecturer in Argentina

Dr. Carol Hess, music history, has been chosen for a Fulbright Lecturing Award in Argentina by the Fulbright Scholar Program.

Carol Hess

Hess will present a doctoral seminar titled “Musical Modernism in the Americas: 1915-1960” at the University of Buenos Aires in May and June. In 1998, she received a Fulbright award to Spain to lecture at the Autonomous University in Barcelona.

The Fulbright program, the United States’ international educational exchange program, was proposed to the U.S. Congress in 1945 by Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas. In the aftermath of World War II, the program was viewed as a much-needed vehicle for promoting "mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world." President Truman signed the program into law in 1946.

Fulbright grants are awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals of other countries for a variety of educational activities, primarily university lecturing, advanced research, graduate study and teaching in elementary and secondary schools.

A specialist in 19th- and 20th-century Spanish and Latin American music, Hess has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Committee for Cultural Cooperation between American Universities, and Spain’s Ministry of Culture.

Her publications include a bio-bibliography and articles on Enrique Granados; entries on Manuel de Falla and several of his contemporaries for the second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and articles in several Hispanic studies and musicological journals.

Her book, Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain 1898-1936, has won four prizes, among them the 2001 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and, in November 2004, the American Musicological Society’s first Robert M. Stevenson Award for outstanding Iberian music scholarship. Her latest book, Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla, was published in December.