Danuta Mirka has been appointed tenured professor of music theory and cognition in the Bienen School of Music, effective September 1, 2018. She will hold the Harry N. and Ruth F. Wyatt Chair in Music Theory. 

Mirka most recently served as the head of music research and interim department head at the University of Southampton and previously taught at the Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. She studied music theory in Poland and earned a PhD in musicology at the University of Helsinki. Mirka was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington and a Humboldt Fellow and Research Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at Germany’s University of Freiburg. 

Coeditor (with Kofi Agawu) of Communication in Eighteenth-Century Music (2008), Mirka is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Topic Theory (2014), which received the Citation of Special Merit from the Society for Music Theory in 2015. Her books include The Sonoristic Structuralism of Krzysztof Penderecki (1997) and Metric Manipulations in Haydn and Mozart: Chamber Music for Strings, 1787–1791 (2009), winner of the Society for Music Theory’s 2011 Wallace Berry Award. Her articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as the Journal of Musicology, Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Online, Eighteenth-Century Music, American Journal of Semiotics, Semiotica, and Musical Quarterly. A former vice president of the Society for Music Analysis, she serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory and Analysis, and Eighteenth-Century Music.