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Daniel H. Foster

Johns Hopkins University · Music Education

Active 1995–2026

h-index47
Citations5.7k
Papers15739 last 5y
Funding$2.6M

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About

Daniel H. Foster is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Liberal Arts Department at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. He is a scholar with a particular interest in the intersection of music, literature, and drama. Foster is the author of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the Greeks, published by Cambridge in 2010, and is currently working on a project titled From Bards to Blackface, or How the Minstrel Changed His Tune. His papers and articles have been published in various journals and outlets, including the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Smithsonian Magazine, and the Huffington Post. He has previously served as a senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia and an associate professor at Duke University. At UEA, he was also the director of the media center, where he led the development of digital humanities projects and worked to incorporate technology into the classroom. Foster has produced and/or directed performances of Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall and Shakespeare’s As You Like It, among others. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Comparative Literature Department, earning honors for his dissertation on Richard Wagner’s use of classical Greek drama and poetry as models for his operatic treatment of German myth and national identity. He was awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and taught in Penn’s Music Department.

Research topics

  • Chemistry
  • Biology
  • Cell biology
  • Internal medicine
  • Biochemistry

Selected publications

Recent grants

Frequent coauthors

  • Jennifer E. Van Eyk

    Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute

    120 shared

  • Anne M. Murphy

    University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

    96 shared

  • Brian O’Rourke

    Johns Hopkins Medicine

    90 shared

  • Nazareno Paolocci

    Johns Hopkins Medicine

    49 shared

  • Xiaoxu Shen

    Dongzhimen Hospital Affiliated to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

    40 shared

  • Kyriakos N. Papanicolaou

    Johns Hopkins Medicine

    40 shared

  • Wei Dong Gao

    Johns Hopkins University

    40 shared

  • Christopher I. Murray

    Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute

    38 shared

Education

  • postdoctoral fellow, Medicine, Division of Cardiology

    Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

    2008

  • postdoctoral fellow

    Boston Biomedical Research Institute

    2003

  • postdoctoral fellow, Department of Physiology & Biophysics

    Boston University School of Medicine

    2003

  • Ph.D., Biochemistry

    Queen's University

    2001

Awards & honors

  • Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship by the University of Pennsylv…

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