Anne Levitsky

Dr. Anne Levitsky serves as Lecturer in Musicology in the School of Music at the University of Queensland, within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a Bachelor of Music (Honours) from Stanford University, a Master's degree from Columbia University, and a PhD in Historical Musicology from Columbia University, awarded in May 2018. Prior to joining the University of Queensland in July 2021, she held teaching positions at Columbia University, Stony Brook University, and Dixie State University (now Utah Tech University). During her time at Columbia, she directed the Collegium Musicum, one of the university's leading choral ensembles. Levitsky's research centers on medieval vernacular song, poetry, and narrative literature, with a focus on troubadour lyric poetry and its connections to the philosophical, theological, medical, and political contexts of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Her current projects include the monograph Sound(ing) Bodies: Song and Materiality in Troubadour Lyric Poetry, under contract with Liverpool University Press in the Exeter Studies in Medieval Culture series, which employs new analytical approaches to medieval monophonic song informed by contemporary discourses; and Singing in the Reign: Song, Grammar, and Politics in the Thirteenth-Century Northern Mediterranean, which analyzes how song contributed to notions of space, geography, and regime formation in Mediterranean courts through Occitan song and grammars. She also investigates medievalisms in popular music, particularly heavy metal.

Levitsky complements her academic work with an active performance career in medieval music. As a founding member of the professional ensemble Fractio Modi, she performs regularly in Brisbane and has studied and recorded troubadour and trouvère songs with the Narbonne-based Troubadours Art Ensemble both as a soloist and ensemble member. Her performance history includes a June 2013 concert with the Rolling Stones in Washington, DC; tours to Germany with the NYC-based GHOSTLIGHT Chorus; and concerts of 12th-, 13th-, and 14th-century monophony and polyphony on Columbia University's Music at St. Paul's series. Key publications include the co-authored book chapter "Education: growing up in music" (2024) in A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages, edited by Elizabeth Eva Leach and Helen Deeming; "“Per vers o per chanso”: grammar, gender, and song in Aimeric de Peguilhan’s Mangtas vetz sui enqueritz" (2021) in Gender and Voice in Medieval French Literature and Song; "Song personified: the Tornadas of Raimon de Miraval" (2018) in Mediaevalia; and a review essay in Current Musicology (2014). Recent creative outputs feature self-published recordings of medieval songs "O viriditas digiti Dei," "Qan lo rius de la fontana," "La rosa enflorece," and "Santa Maria, strela do Dia" (all 2025), alongside "Puzzles of parchment: the medieval musical fragments of the New York Public Library" (2019).

Professional Email: a.levitsky@uq.edu.au