Specialties

Theory and analysis, gender and sexuality, popular music, aesthetics, dramatic and narrative aspects of instrumental music

Education

Ph. D. in Music Theory, Princeton University; M. Litt. in Philosophy, Oxford University

Biography

Fred Everett Maus teaches music at the University of Virginia. He has written on music and narrative, gender and sexuality in relation to discourse about music, queer popular music, embodiment, music therapy, trauma, and other subjects. He was a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Women and Music and for several years its book review editor. He served as the first Chair of the Queer Resource Group of the Society for Music Theory, and more recently as the first Chair of SMT’s Standing Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues. Recent essays include “LGBTQ+ Lives in Professional Music Theory” (2020), “The B-52s, Loss, and Defiance” (2023), "Queer Sexuality and Musical Narrative” (2023), "Narrativ und 'Agency'" (2025), "Teaching Traumatized Students" (2025), and "'Teach Yourself to Fly': Pauline Oliveros and Musical Analysis" (to appear 2026). He is co-editor, with the late Sheila Whiteley, of The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness (2022). The Handbook received the 2023 Philip Brett Award of the American Musicological Society, for "exceptional musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies."