Dr. Peng Liu
Assistant Professor of Music, Musicology
M/W/F, 3:30–6:00; T/R, 1:00–2:30
B.A., China Conservatory of Music; M.M., Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Peng Liu received his Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021, where he also served as a lecturer in musicology prior to his tenure-track appointment at Truman State University. His current book project, tentatively titled Reinventing the Virtuoso: Anna Caroline de Belleville and Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture, offers the first comprehensive study of Belleville’s strategic career reinvention in response to evolving performance practices, aesthetics, technology, and economic factors. In addition to his work on women musicians and piano culture, Dr. Liu's research interests encompass Asian American music, identity politics, and music and meaning.
His articles, reviews, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Journal of the Royal Musical Association, The Journal of Musicology, Notes (The Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association), The Journal of Central Conservatory of Music, The Journal of Tianjin Conservatory of Music, and Music Culture Studies. Dr. Liu has regularly presented his research at regional, national, and international conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society (AMS), the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, the International Conference on Women’s Work in Music, and the Music of Asian America Conference.
His research has been supported by a COFA/Graduate School Continuing Fellowship at UT-Austin, the H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Fund from the AMS, and the Music & Letters Trust Award. In 2018, he was the recipient of the AMS-Southwest Chapter’s Hewitt-Oberdoerffer award for best graduate student paper. As Co-President of UT-Austin’s Association of Graduate Ethno/Musicology Students (AGEMS) in 2018-2019, Dr. Liu initiated and chaired the 2019 UT-Austin Graduate Music Conference. He completed his term as a member of the Communications Committee at AMS in 2024 and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Music History Pedagogy and as the chair of the Bibliography Committee for the Global East Asian Music Research Study Group at AMS.