Shannon Draucker

Shannon Draucker is Associate Professor of English at Siena University. Her first book, Sounding Bodies: Acoustical Science and Musical Erotics in Victorian Literature, was published by SUNY Press in 2024. Her current book-in-progress, The New Classical Music, explores representations of classical music in fiction, film, television, and social media from the 2010s and 2020s. She is also a classically trained clarinetist.


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Writing on Public Books

Can Literary Fiction Save Classical Music?

Classical music’s most troubling traditions include erasing Black performers, abusing and harassing in conservatories, and refusing to acknowledge physical injuries.

“Lupin” and the Limits of “Haute Culture”

Does Netflix’s “Lupin” resist the notoriously white milieu of European high culture, or, instead, endorse it?