Dr. Nadia Chana

Biography

Nadia Chana is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Mead Witter School of Music. She hails from a settler South Asian background and was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Treaty 6 territory. Her research interests focus on listening, voice, practice-based ways of knowing, ecological crises, human-nonhuman relations, and settler colonialism. Chana's work is informed by music studies, critical Indigenous studies, and feminist science studies, which she integrates into her teaching and research. Over the past decade, she has been developing ideas for her book-in-progress titled 'Unsettling Publics: Listening Sound Indigenous Lands', emphasizing relational listening and ethnographic practice. Her research efforts have been supported by various fellowships, including the Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship from the Society for American Music and the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship from the American Musicological Society. In 2012, she co-founded the Bicycle Opera Project, which promotes contemporary Canadian opera to audiences via bicycle. She resides near Lakes Monona and Mendota and continues to engage with her community.

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