In 2010, he received his Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on the Soviet musical comedy films of Grigory Aleksandrov and Isaak Dunayevsky. In broad terms, Dr. Kupfer’s research focuses on intersections of music, politics, nationalism, reception, and multimedia, with particular interests in 19th century German music and 20th century Russian/Soviet music. His research has appeared in the Journal of Musicology, Twentieth-Century Music, Music and the Moving Image, and Classical Music in the German Democratic Republic, edited by Kyle Frackman and Larson Powell (Camden House, 2015).Haut de page