Rate My Professor Anne Harley

Anne Harley is Professor of Music at Scripps College, where she joined the faculty in 2009 as Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015, and became full Professor in 2022. Prior to Scripps, she served as Assistant Professor of Music at UNC Charlotte from 2006 to 2009. She also chaired the Music Department from 2015 to 2017. Harley holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Historical Performance from Boston University (2006), an Opera Certificate from Boston University Opera Institute (1996), a Master of Music in Voice Performance from Boston University (1994), and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from Yale College (1989). In addition to her professorship, she directs the Clark Humanities Museum, chairs the Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure Committee, and advises in the Environmental Analysis Non-Science Track.

Harley's scholarship and creative work center on the intersection of performance and scholarship, with a focus on interdisciplinary and intercultural performance projects that foster community through newly composed music and collaborative theater. In 2011, she founded and directs Voices of the Pearl, commissioning, performing, recording, and touring contemporary classical music settings of texts by and about female esoteric practitioners from global traditions, diversifying the recital hall with languages such as Farsi, Mandarin, Khmer, Pali, Kannada, and Hebrew, and prioritizing non-male and composers of color. The project has garnered National Endowment for the Arts ArtWorks Grants in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2021, as well as Canada Council for the Arts grants. Her publications include “Connecting Performance and Performing Connection: How the performing arts can usefully engage an international and interdisciplinary cohort in pedagogy and research” (ASIANetworks Exchange, 2020), “Russian Women Composers from the Court of Catherine the Great: The Romances of Princess Natalia Ivanovna Kurakina (1768-1831)” (Journal of Singing, 2015), and “Orality overlooked: What can be learned from oral pedagogies of music” (Voice and Speech Review, 2011). Among her honors are multiple Scripps College Mary Wig Johnson Faculty Achievement Awards (2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2022), Grammy voting membership since 2009, Noah Greenberg Award (American Musicological Society, 2001), Huntington Library Short-term Fellowship (2017), and DAAD Visiting Professorship (2013). She has presented invited lectures and performances worldwide, including at Salzburg Mozarteum, Harvard Divinity School as Scholar-in-Residence (2023-24), and various institutions in China, Germany, and Thailand.