Faculty Profile

kreiling.jpgJean L. Kreiling

Ph.D., M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
M.A., University of Virginia
B.A., The College of William and Mary

Dr. Kreiling teaches music history, music appreciation, class piano, and music fundamentals.

Before coming to Bridgewater State University, Dr. Kreiling taught music at the South Shore Conservatory of Music (Hingham, MA) and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC); she also taught English at Western Carolina University (Cullowhee, NC). She has sung with Musica Sacra (Cambridge, MA), the Asheville (NC) Symphony Chorus, and the Greensboro (NC) Symphony Chorus, and she performs occasionally as a pianist.

Dr. Kreiling’s articles on connections between music and literature have appeared in the academic journals Ars Lyrica, Lucayos, and Mosaic, and she has given presentations at interdisciplinary conferences in London, Edinburgh, Toronto, Honolulu, and other venues. Additional research and writing projects have included program notes for concerts at BSU and elsewhere.

A prize-winning poet, Dr. Kreiling has published her work in several print and online literary journals, including 14 by 14, Angle, Ekphrasis, The Evansville Review, The Formalist, Innisfree Poetry Journal, London Poetry Review, The Lyric, Measure, The Pennsylvania Review, SLANT, Thema, and Think Journal. Her poems have also appeared in anthologies, including the recent Birchsong: Poetry Centered in Vermont. She was the winner of the 2011 Able Muse Write Prize for Poetry, and she has been a finalist for the Dogwood Poetry Prize, the Frost Farm Prize, and the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award.

Samples of her poetry on musical subjects can be found at the links below.

In the Alto Section (Beethoven's Ninth Symphony)
Piano Duo

Office: Maxwell Library 312A
Office Phone: (508) 531-2287
On Campus Extension: 2287

Last Modified: September 28, 2012