Michael Saffle
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243 Lane |
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Ph.D. in Musicology and Humanities at Standford University, 1977.
Michael Saffle is professor of Music and Humanities in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. He has published articles and reviews in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Acta Musicologica, Notes, the Programmhefte of Bayreuth’s Wagner Festival, Music & Letters, and the Leonardo Music Journal as well as the International Dictionary of Black Composers and other reference works. His books include Franz Liszt: A Guide to Research, revised and republished by Routledge in 2004; and he continues to serve as editor for American biographical entries on behalf of the German music encyclopedia, "Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart" (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1994-2008).
As a teacher, Saffle has three times won Virginia Tech’s Certificate of Teaching Excellence; and in 2007 he received the William E. Wine Award from Tech’s Academy of Teaching Excellence.
As a scholar, he has held fellowships from the Fulbright and Humboldt Foundations as well as the American Philosophical Society; in 2000-2001 he served as Bicentennial Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki.
An old “mountain” house he and his wife restored won a local preservation award in 1989 and was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
In 2006, on his sixtieth birthday, Professor Saffle was honored with a ‘Festschrift’ published as an issue of the cultural-studies ejournal Spaces of Identity [Volume 6, No. 3 (3 December 2006)].