Andrea Fowler

Biography

Andrea Fowler serves the Center for South Asia as Assistant Director, coordinating Outreach Programming, FLAS for CSA and SASLI, and serving as the Conference Coordinator for the Annual Conference on South Asia. Her outreach programs have been supported by a Reilly-Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant (Teaching Forward Fellowship Project for Wisconsin Middle School Educators) and Brittingham Trust Grants (International Children’s Literature workshops as part of the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium). She earned her Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing her dissertation on composer Julius Eastman. She also holds an MM in Musicology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance, an MA in Vocal Performance from Truman State University, and a BS in Music Education from Missouri Western State University.

Prior to her role as CSA Assistant Director, she served as a Program Assistant at the Center for South Asia and a Teaching Assistant at the Mead Witter School of Music, and she was an instructor at the annual Summer Music Clinic at UW-Madison, 2015-2021. Past research collaborations include public outreach concerts with Sound Out Loud and Madison Public Philosophy and presenting at the inaugural LunART Women’s Music Festival in Madison. Areas of research interest include minimalism, American experimental traditions as translations of world musics, film music, and wide variety of topics concerning music and race. During her Kansas City years, Andrea maintained a large private voice studio, served as a choral accompanist, program annotator for Bach Aria Soloists, and was a classical music features intern for The Kansas City Star.