Christopher Scheer

Caine College of the Arts

Music

Christopher Scheer is an assistant professor of musicology at Utah State University. His primary research interests are late 19th and early 20th century British music. He has read papers at a number of conferences, including the National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, the International Conference on Music Since 1900, the Nineteenth-Century Music Conference, Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference, the North American British Music Studies Association, and the Midwest and Rocky Mountain Chapters of the American Musicological Society. Sheer is the author of a forthcoming chapter on the role of Theosophy and Theosophists in the British Reception of Richard Wagner to be published in The Legacy of Richard Wagner, edited by Luca Sala. He is also author of chapters on Holst and Formalism (in British Music and Modernism, edited by Matthew Riley) and Irish Unionism and the music of Charles Villiers Stanford (in Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music, edited by Rachel Cowgill and Julian Rushton). He has a monograph on the operas of Gustav Holst and British operatic cuture under review by the Ashgate Interdisciplinary Opera Series. Sheer has been the recipient of numerous grants including travel funding from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Caine College of the Arts, as well as the Gardner Travel Fellowship. In 2010, he was a Leverhulme International Scholar Fellowship at Liverpool Hope University.