About Dr. Harwood:

Gregory Harwood is the sole musicologist in Georgia Southern's Music Department and serves as Director of Graduate Studies in Music. He teaches survey and specialized courses in music history, music appreciation, research methods and bibliography. In addition, he helped to create an interdisciplinary humanities survey course, which he teaches with faculty members from the Department of Art and the Department of Literature & Philosophy. During his tenure at Georgia Southern, Dr. Harwood has also developed and taught new courses entitled "Interdisciplinary Music Education" and "Music, Technology, and Contemporary Society."

Dr. Harwood's research interests are in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, and his publications have dealt with the music of Verdi, Schumann, Ravel, and Berlioz. His article on parody in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges , published in the Opera Journal , won first place in the Scholarly Paper Competition of the National Opera Association and his annotated bibliography Giuseppe Verdi: A Guide to Research (Garland Press, 1998) is considered a standard reference resource in Verdi studies. Dr. Harwood is currently completing an annotated English translation of Francesco Galeazzi's Elementi teorico-pratici di musica, Vol. 2 (1796) in collaboration with Dr. Deborah Burton of Boston University , and is also working on an article dealing with the cultural milieu of the fantastique in Paris during the 1820s and 30s and its relationship to Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique . In addition to his research activities, Dr. Harwood makes occasional appearances as a piano soloist and as a lecture-recitalist.

Dr. Harwood received the Ph.D. in Musicology from New York University in 1991, a M.A. in Musicology from Brigham Young University in 1980, and a B.A. in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University in 1978. His wife, Dr. Kathy T. Harwood, is the Director of a Charter School in Statesboro. They are the proud parents of Martin and Elizabeth Harwood, who are currently pursuing degrees at the University of Georgia in Landscape Architecture and International Affairs, respectively.