Dr. Andrew Hicks

Biography

Andrew Hicks’ research focuses on intellectual history and early musical thought from a cross-disciplinary perspective. He examines philosophical, cosmological, scientific, and grammatical discourse in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, spanning linguistic and cultural spheres including Latin, Greek, Persian, and Arabic. His book, 'Composing World: Harmony Medieval Platonic Cosmos' (Oxford University Press, 2017), received the ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson book award in 2018 and the Society for Music Theory's Emerging Scholar book award in the same year. Hicks has also collaborated with Fr. Édouard Jeauneau on John Scottus Eriugena’s Commentary on the Gospel of John and is currently preparing editions of William Conches’ 'Glosulae super Priscianum' and 'Glosae super Macrobium'. His published essays cover topics in the history of music theory, Pythagoreanism, textual criticism, and musical metaphors in Classical Persian literature. In 2018, he was awarded the Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin for his research on a book titled 'Broken Harp: Listening Otherwise Classical Persian Literature'. Hicks serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Medieval Latin and has held various editorial roles. He regularly leads graduate seminars and teaches undergraduate courses on music history and theory, alongside medieval Latin literature and paleography.

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