Collin researches French musical thought in the Third Republic, examining how musicians and writers turned to surprising texts, histories, and contexts—particularly related to the Symbolist and phenomenology movements—as alternatives to the musical thought circulating in Parisian institutions like musical societies and the Paris Conservatoire. Collin is particularly interested in how these discourses evolved around a changing conception of text, in which discourses about writing and communication inspired new thought about the experience of music.
Collin recently presented papers at the Transnational Opera Studies Conference in Lisbon (2023), the Fauré Centennial Festival in Boulder, CO (2024), and the Royal Musical Association French Music and Culture Study Day in Cardiff (2024). Collin also co-convened with Mara Lane the conference “Contemporary Opera on Stage: Institutions & Visions" at UC Berkeley (2022).
B.A., Liberal Arts, St. John’s College (Annapolis, MD) (2017)
M.M., Musicology, Peabody Conservatory at the Johns Hopkins University (2020)
