Maryam Parhizkar

Maryam Parhizkar is an MA candidate in the Liberal Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, concentrating in American Studies. Her current interests explore the ways in which experimentation in American music is informed by poetics, performance practices, racial experience and politics. Also a poet and violist by musical training, by day she manages concerts for the series Music Before 1800 and publications for Litmus Press.