Samantha Heinle works on the intersection of music and literature from 1800 to the present. After receiving her Ph.D. in historical musicology from Cornell University, Dr. Heinle taught courses across music history, theory, and interdisciplinary studies at Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Notre Dame. Her current book project, On the Musically Kafkaesque, listens in to facets of the modern condition made audible through the sonic reception of Franz Kafka’s texts. She has published articles on the political scandal caused by the literary collaboration between composer Gottfried von Einem and writer Bertolt Brecht, on the dialectical interaction of music and philosophy in Theodor W. Adorno’s musical compositions, and on the unexpected relationship between Samsung washers and Schubert songs. Her other research and teaching interests include film music, media theory, global song cultures, aesthetics, and critical theory. 

After earning an A.B. in music and comparative literature from Harvard University, Dr. Heinle was awarded a Fulbright Grant to conduct research at the archive of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Austria. Her scholarship has also been supported by grants from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University, and a Don M. Randel Teaching and Research Fellowship.