Huishu Wang

Area of proposed thesis

Huishu’s DPhil thesis, supervised by Professor Jonathan Cross, employs an interdisciplinary approach to Stravinsky by incorporating theories and perspectives from disability studies. It explores two interconnected research questions: first, how Stravinsky’s music could be understood as intersecting with disability across historical, critical, and analytical contexts, and second, how a recognition of disability aesthetics in Stravinsky’s music might lead to a re-evaluation of his work.

Research interests

20th Century Music, Modernism in Music, Igor Stravinsky, Music and Disability

Funding

St Cross College Academic Travel & Research Fund

Degrees

MA (Renmin University of China), BA (RUC)

Publications

Huishu Wang, “Origins and Allusions: An Interpretation of the Bell Sonority in Les Noces”, People’s Music no. 1 (2018): 84–87.