Dr. Steven A. Harper

About Dr. Harper

Dr. Steven A. Harper is Chair of the Fred and Dinah Gretsch School of Music at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Harper previously was on faculty at The University of Texas at Austin, Angelo State University, and Georgia State University, where he also served as Director of Graduate Studies and as Interim Director of the School of Music. He holds degrees from the University of Louisville (B.M.), Northwestern University (M.M.), and The University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.).

Dr. Harper’s research interests are in music theory and analysis. He has published essays on the music of Anton Webern, Jean Sibelius, and Åke Hermanson. His work can be found in Indiana Theory Review, College Music Symposium, Sibelius Forum, and STM-Online (the online journal of the Swedish Society for Musicology).