Musicologist, Kaylee Feller-Simmons is a professor of music at Oklahoma University. Her research focuses on music and youth culture, a topic she has explored in many centuries: from adolescent drug use and song in Holland’s Golden Age, to mother-daughter relationships at the Victorian piano, to the politics of the 1990s and the Spice Girls’ “Girl power!” movement. An early modernist at heart, Feller-Simmons is currently completing her Ph.D. in musicology at Indiana University where her dissertation examines 17th-century Dutch songbooks and historical conceptions of youth and gender. She also holds an M.A. in musicology from Northwestern University, where she wrote her thesis on courtship and song culture in the Dutch Republic, and a B.A. in music education from Utah State University with emphases in choral and early childhood education.
Feller-Simmons' academic work has been supported by grants and fellowships such as the U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, the Peter Burkholder and Doug McKinney Musicology Research Fund, the Historians of Netherlandish Art Fellowship, and the American Musicological Society, among others.
In addition to her role at Oklahoma University, Feller-Simmons is an adjunct professor of musicology at Utah State University and serves as the webmaster for the American Musicological Society's Midwest Chapter. When she is not teaching or mastering the web, Feller-Simmons enjoys singing in early music chamber ensembles, as well as doting over her two adorable cats and husband.
