About Mingfei Li

Mingfei Li is a PhD Candidate in Musicology with minors in Music Theory and Piano Performance at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Her dissertation focuses on late-eighteenth-century German theater and operas. Her secondary research interests include music and trauma studies, twentieth- and twenty-first-century East Asian and Asian American music, and nineteenth-century musical transcriptions and arrangements. Her work on music and trauma is forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook on Music, Sound, and Trauma Studies by the Oxford University Press. As a recognized Mozart scholar, Li is a member of the prestigious invitation-only Mozart Colloquium, an international seminar devoted to Mozart studies. In addition to her scholarly achievements, Li is an award-winning concert pianist, whose performances have brought her to competitions and venues across the United States, Europe, and Asia.