Eleanor Selfridge-Field

Eleanor Selfridge-Field teaches in the music, computer science, and symbolic systems programs with a principal emphasis on digital musicology. She is also a music historian and an occasional commentator on music copyright. She holds degrees in music and history (BA, Drew U.), journalism (M.Sc. Columbia U.), and music (D.Phil.,Oxford U.). Since 1984, when she joined Walter B. Hewlett in setting up the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities (Menlo Park), she has spearheaded the Center’s content development and publication programs. Together they edited fifteen yearbooks covering research-in-progress in digital music studies and, with additional staff, created a corpus of more than 1200 fully encoded scores of classical music. Since 1996 the Center has been located on the Stanford campus, and since 2011 it has been affiliated with the Packard Humanities Institute.

Dr. Selfridge-Field is a co-founder of Humanities West (San Francisco), a former co-chair of the International Musicological Society’s Digital Musicology study group (1987-2012), a board member of the Music Encoding Initiative (2014-2020), the US correspondent for the International Vivaldi Institute (1978--), and an associate editor of Frontiers in Digital Humanities (2014--). She is a consultant to many academic foundations in the North America, Europe, and Australia. She previously taught at the U. of Pittsburgh, Mills College, and Cal State University San Francisco. As a journalist she has worked for the New York Times, the Associated Press, and KQED.