Nathan Link joined Centre’s faculty in 2006 as assistant professor of music. He was named a Centre Scholar in 2009, received a Stodghill Fellowship for the 2009-10 year, and is serving as a Mellon Global Fellow from 2010-2012, contributing to the development of an African and African-American Studies program at Centre.
He was formerly an instructor at Yale University.
He specializes in eighteenth-century opera, with strong secondary interests in nineteenth-century music and aesthetics, the theory of opera, African music, and country and popular music. He currently teaches courses in music history, humanities, and Kentucky music, and leads Centre's Kentucky Ensemble. His publications have appeared in Oxford University Press's Opera Quarterly, the Journal of the American Library Association, the Göttinger Händel Beiträge, and Opera Today, and he is currently working on two books, one on Handel's operas, and another on country music.
He serves as vice-president of both the American Handel Society and the American Musicological Society's South-Central chapter.
He earned his Ph.D. in music history, with distinction, from Yale University in 2006 with a dissertation on the operas of Georg Frideric Handel, his M.A. from the University of Washington in 2001 with a thesis on Johannes Brahms's first string quartet, and his bachelor's degree from Macalester College, cum laude, in 1992, with majors in English and music theory and composition.
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