Jennifer Saltzstein specializes in the music literature of medieval France. Her dissertation, entitled "Wandering Voices: Refrain Citation in Thirteenth Century French Music and Poetry," is an interdisciplinary study of musical citation and its literary and cultural meanings, focusing on refrain use in romance, trouvère song, the motet, and in the works of Adam de la Halle. She has presented her work at two national meetings of the American Musicological Society (2005 and 2007); at the International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (2003); for the Department of Romance Languages at Princeton University (2006); and for a joint conference hosted by the departments of Music and Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania entitled "Etymologies of Medieval Song" (2008). Her essay, "Refrains in the Je de Robin et Marion: History of a Citation," was chosen for inclusion in a collection of essays enitled Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France, edited by Finn Sinclair and Rebecca Dixon with the participation fo Adrian Anderson, Sylvia Huot and Sarah Kay. The publication is scheduled for release in the fall of 2008. She joined the faculty of the University of Oklahoma in fall of 2007, and currently serves as assistant professor of musicology.

B.A.—UCLA (clarinet performance)
Ph.D.—University of Pennsylvania (musicology)

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