Education
Biography
Ana Sánchez-Rojo is a music historian focused on the cultural study of music and sound in Mexico and Spain. Her work bridges music history with other disciplines such as Spanish studies, history, and Latin American Studies.
Her monograph, Music and Modernity in Enlightenment Spain, published with Boydell & Brewer in 2024, explores the relationship between music and the socio-cultural landscape during that period. She is now working on a new book project examining music and sound in the Nationalist Campaign in 1930s Mexico. Her articles, published in both English and Spanish, appears in leading journals including Twentieth Century Music, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment, and Cuadernos de Música Iberoamericana.
Dr. Sánchez-Rojo teaches courses about classical music, including opera, and about Latin American popular music. She currently serves as Director of Undergraduate Students for the music department and is available to meet with undergraduate students who have questions about their music curriculum.
Courses
- MUSC 1050 - Listening to Music
- MUSC 1080 - Music of the Mexico-U.S. Border
- MUSC 3200 – Listening to Art Music
- MUSC 3421 - Women Die in Opera (writing intensive and graduate sections available)
- MUSC 3340 - Music of Mexico and Central America
- MUSC 3460 - Music, Religion, Spirit (writing intensive and graduate sections available)
- MUSC 4330 - Music of the Latin American Outlaws (writing intensive and graduate sections available)