Susan C. Cook is professor of music and also serves as the academic associate dean for the Arts and Humanities in the Graduate School. Her teaching and research focus on contemporary and American musics of all kinds and demonstrate her abiding interest in feminist methodologies and cultural criticism. Current works-in-progress include an exploration of gender, commemoration and the post-Great War work of Maurice Ravel, American opera singer Alma Gluck, musical imagery in the novels of Carson McCullers, and female blackface minstrelsy. She is the author of Opera for a New Republic, co-editor of Cecilia Reclaimed as well as essays in The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and Teaching Music History. Her essay "Watching Our Step: Embodying Research, Telling Stories," on the gendered and racialized meanings of ragtime social dance won the Lippincott Prize from the Society for Dance History Scholars. She has also held the Wal t Whitman Chair in American Culture Studies as part of the Fulbright Distinguished Teaching Program in the Netherlands.