Stacey Houck

Stacey Jocoy Houck has successfully defended her Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her dissertation entitled Decoding Musical Resistance: English Vocal Music in the Service of the King, c. 1625-1660 considers the music in light of its social and political role in a war-torn society. She has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she received student-nominated awards for teaching excellence. Academic honors include fellowships from The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the William Nugent Foundation, as well as awards from The Huntington Library and the Newberry Library. Dr. Houck has articles in Essays on Music and Culture in Honor of Herbert Kellman, ed. Barbara Haagh (Paris: Klickieck, 2000) and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Personenteil, vols. 3 and 6 (2001), and the volume of RISM (Anthologies of Printed Music, 1500-1550: Their Contents, Répertoire International des Sources Musicale, Series B. Munich: G. Henle) she co-edited with Herbert Kellman is forthcoming. She is currently involved with a critical edition of John Playford’s Brief Introduction to the Skill of Music (Ashgate publishing). Dr. Houck has presented papers at meetings of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, American Musicological Society, and the North American British Music Studies Association. As a performer, she is a vocalist and practices historical dance.

To contact Stacey Houck, email at stacey.houck@ttu.edu.