She is Associate Professor of Musicology at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. The work she did at the American Academy was published as Brecht at the Opera (University of California Press, 2008). Her research on opera, Cold-War cultural politics, and Schoenberg has appeared in Cambridge Opera Journal, Musical Quarterly, Opera Quarterly, Journal of Musicology, and numerous anthologies. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Musicological Society and chair of the AMS Cold War and Music Study Group. Currently she is completing a book entitled Schoenberg’s ‘A Survivor from Warsaw’ in Postwar Europe, for which she received support from an ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars (2009-10, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard) and the Howard Foundation. He research has also been funded by the NEH, the DAAD, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies. In January 2013 Calico will take over as Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies at Vanderbilt.

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