Associate Professor Jason Stoessel
Associate Professor in Musicology and Digital Humanities - School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Biography
Associate Professor Stoessel is one of Australia's leading music historians and music theorists. His internationally recognised research seeks to illuminate music's multifarious intellectual, social and emotions functions in past and present communities through a range of traditional and innovative approaches. He has published extensively on global music history, music and visual cultures, musical creativity and the history of emotions. His research has been funded by international and national research funding agencies. Associate Professor Stoessel's research closely informs his expert teaching across a range of units in the Musicology major at UNE. Through his teaching and research, Associate Professor Stoessel seeks to foster interest in the rich musical legacy of the middle ages and early modern period using new and often unorthodox approaches. Associate Professor Stoessel is also a highly experienced organisational research leader. He has served as Associate Dean, Research in the Faculty of HASSE and has contributed to research strategy at the School, Faculty and University level. His extensive network of collaborators and research partnership provide HDR candidates in his supervision with unique opportunities for advancing their research projects and careers.
Qualifications
Combined BMus/BA (UNE), BA Honours with University Medal (UNE), PhD (UNE)
Teaching Areas
Associate Professor Stoessel lectures in Western and Global music history, music analysis and music theory from the Middle Ages to the present. Throughout his teaching, Associate Professor Stoessel encourages critical thinking about music and music history. Another emphasis of his teaching is the acquisition of life-long learning and communication skills that serve graduates in their future careers in music and music-related vocations.
Awards
2010 University of New England Teaching Commendation
2009 University of New England, School Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (For the development of a complete suite of new units that provide outstanding and innovative opportunities for music learning in the online environment)
Research Interests
Associate Professor Stoessel's primary research focuses upon music and musical culture during the period 1250-1700. His research areas include music theory from ninth to seventeenth centuries, polyphonic song in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the polyphonic Mass in the fifteenth century and applications of computers to symbolic musical analysis.
Grants
2018-2020 Chief Investigator, with Denis Collins. "The Art and Science of Canon in the Music of Early 17th-Century Rome." Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant (project number DP180100680)
2015–2017 Chief Investigator, with Denis Collins. “Canonic Techniques and Musical Change from c.1330 to c.1530.” Australian Research Council, Discovery Project Grants (project number DP150102135)
2014–2017 Associate Investigator, Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (project number CE110001011)
2013 International Research Visitorship for Mid-Career Scholars, Balzan Programme in Musicology "Towards a Global History of Music" led by Professor Reinhard Strohm. 10-week residency at the University of Oxford
Research Supervision Experience
Supervision Areas
Primary areas: European music from the 11th to 17th centuries; Music theory from the 9th to 17th centuries; Notation and sources studies (palaeography, codicology); counterpoint; music editing and criticism; computational analysis of music; music and emotions.
Secondary areas: 18th–19th Century Music Aesthetics and Analysis; European avant garde music, c.1960–c.1990; Western repertoires for the violin family.
