Kevin Bartig

Kevin Bartig is Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University (USA). His research focuses on music in Eastern Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and his published work has contributed to music, film, Slavic, and theater studies. His first book, Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film (Oxford University Press, 2013), draws on research in Russian archives to examine Sergei Prokofiev’s collaborations with leading figures in the early history of cinema. He further explores these creative figures’ encounters with Soviet censorship and the reception of their work during the Cold War and beyond in his second book, Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky (Oxford University Press, 2017). Bartig’s most recent book is the edited volume Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev (Indiana University Press, 2021), which examines key modernist developments in 20th-century Russian theatre and opera. The volume received the 2022 American Society for Theatre Research Translation Prize.

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