Martin Knust

Martin Knust

Associate professor
Department of Music and Art Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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Martin Knust is associate professor in musicology. He studied musicology, theology and philosophy at the University of Greifswald, the Humboldt University Berlin and the Technical University Dresden. Academic appointments and lectureships in Germany and Sweden, among others as postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University. Since 2015 member of Linnæus research center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS).

Research specializations: Opera and music theatre after 1800 (in particular the historical performance practice of speech, song and gestures), north European music after 1800 (in particular concerning reception and cultural transfer processes between the North and continental Europe), Swedish pop and music in audiovisual political journalism (especially their production and aesthetics).

Teaching

Knust has taught and supervised in different musicrelated subjects on undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level in, among others, Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Portugal and Kenya. In 2019 he became Linnæus university's program director of the Music and sound design program 120 hp which is a cooperation between Linnæus university, Dalarna university and Mid Sweden university.

Research

He is member of the Linnæus research center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), board member of research school The Future of Democracy in Times of Crisis (FUDEM) and leader of a 3-year research project about digital music production, funded by the Family Kamprad Foundation (2023–25). Beside that he is member of the Sara Lisa funded study group Alternative Media Logic.

He has published two monographs about Richard Wagner and edited an anthology about Wagner and the North together with Anne Kauppala, professor at Sibelius Academy Helsinki. He is editor of an anthology about pop music production in Småland which will be published at Palgrave Macmillan.

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