Groos, Arthur

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
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Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities, and is a member of the graduate fields of German Studies, Medieval Studies, and Music. In the former, his interests include Arthurian romance, the courtly love lyric, medieval science, early modern city culture, and the Age of Goethe; in the latter they focus on issues of music and culture, text-music relations, and opera, especially Wagner, Puccini, and modern opera. Founding co-editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal, he is also general editor of Cambridge Studies in Opera (Cambridge University Press), and co-editor of a monograph series on medieval/early modern literature and culture, Transatlantische Studien (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht). A co-founder and Vice President of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini in Lucca, Italy, he also edits its periodical (Studi pucciniani) and monograph series. He held Guggenheim and Senior Fulbright Fellowships in Munich in 1979-80, and an Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis in Berlin in 2001-02. In fall 2007, he was Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford.