We invite you to join us in the Dezember Reading Room of the Walter W. Stiern Library to welcome this year's Writer in Residence guest author: Lily Hirsch.

Lily E. Hirsch is a Visiting Scholar at California State University, Bakersfield, and serves as the book review editor of the Journal of Musicological Research. She is the author of the books A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League (University of Michigan Press in 2010), Music in American Crime Prevention and Punishment (University of Michigan Press in 2012), Anneliese Landau’s Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California (Eastman Studies in Music in 2019), Weird Al: Seriously (Rowman & Littlefield in 2020; expanded in 2022), Insulting Music: A Lexicon of Insult in Music (Palgrave, 2022), Can’t Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), and Taking Funny Music Seriously (University of Indiana Press, 2024). She has also published numerous articles in academic journals, newspapers, and magazines, as well as attempts at humor in Slackjaw, Belladonna, and Frazzled.

 Hirsch is a musicologist by training, with a Ph.D. from Duke University, and has lived in Bakersfield since 2010. 

This event is free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be provided.