E-Mail: Charles.McGuire@oberlin.edu Office: Bibbins 215 Office Phone: 440/775-8252 Address: 77 W. College St. Oberlin, OH 44074 Back to: Division of Musicology		Charles McGuire Associate Professor of Musicology On leave spring semester 2009 Education: B.A. and B.Mus. degrees, Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 1992; M.A. 1995, Ph.D. 1998, Harvard University. Professional Affiliations: Assistant Professor, James Madison University, 2000-2001; Lecturer, University of Maryland at College Park, 1999-2000; Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Ball State University, 1999. Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University, 1998. Grants and Awards: Recipient of the James Madison University Faculty Summer Research Grant (2001), Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship (1999), Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship (1997-1998), Pirotta Research Fellowship (1997), Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (1994, 1995 and 1996), Oscar Schafer Fellowship (1996-1997). Areas of Specialty: Edward Elgar, the Oratorio, Victorian Music. Presentations: American Musicological Society (1998, 2000, 2003, 2005); Midwest Victorian Studies Association (2000); Music in Nineteenth Century Britain Biannual Conference (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005); North American British Music Studies Association Biannual Conference (2004, 2006); Yale-Edinburgh Group Conference (2004); Richard Murphy Musicology Colloquium at Oberlin Conservatory (1999). Publications: Elgar’s Oratorios (monograph; Ashgate Press, April 2002) “Elgar and Acworth’s Caractacus: The Druids, Race, and the Individual Hero” (essay to be published in Elgar Studies, edited by Julian Rushton and Paul Harper-Scott; Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2007) “Measure of a Man: Catechizing Elgar’s Catholic Avatars” (essay to be published in Elgar and His World, edited by Byron Adams; Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming in 2007) “Music and Morality: John Curwen’s Tonic Sol-fa, the Temperance Movement, and the Oratorios of Edward Elgar” (essay published in Chorus and Community, edited by Karen Ahlquist; University of Illinois Press, 2006) “Elgar’s Image: Music for the Empire” (essay published in The Cambridge Companion to Elgar, edited by Julian Rushton and Daniel Grimley; Cambridge University Press, 2005) “From The Apostles to Sancta Civitas: Oratorios and Portraits by Elgar and Vaughan Williams” (essay published in A Special Flame: Proceedings of the International Conference on Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams (Albion Press, 2004)  “Vaughan Williams and the English Music Festival, 1910” (paper published in Vaughan Williams Essays, edited by Byron Adams and Robin Wells; Ashgate Press, 2003)  “John Johnson,” entry, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (revised edition; 2001) “Elgar, Judas, and the Theology of Betrayal” (Nineteenth-Century Music, Vol. XXIII, no. 3 (Spring 2000) “One Story, Two Visions: Textual Differences Between Elgar’s and Newman’s The Dream of Gerontius” (Elgar Society Journal, vol. 11, no. 2 (July, 1999); reprinted in The Best of Me: a Gerontius Centenary Companion, edited by Geoffrey Hodgkins; Rickmansworth: Elgar Editions, 1999)