Marian Wilson Kimber

Marian Wilson Kimber
Born	Marian Wilson
Academic background
Alma mater	Florida State University (PhD)
Thesis	Felix Mendelssohn's Works for Solo Piano and Orchestra: Sources and Composition (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Douglas Seaton
Academic work
Discipline	Musicologist
Institutions	University of Iowa
Main interests	19th century music

Marian Wilson Kimber is an American musicologist and a Professor of Music at the University of Iowa.

Life and career

Having completed a dissertation on the autograph scores of Felix Mendelssohn's piano concertos, Wilson Kimber received her PhD in Musicology from Florida State University in 1993. Her work covers topics of gender, biography, performance, and bibliography in the nineteenth century. Specifically, she has published on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Jane Austen, spoken-word recitation to musical accompaniment, and female performance genres. Wilson Kimber's recent book The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word (University of Illinois Press, 2017), was a recipient of grants from both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music.

Selected writings

• Kimber, Marian Wilson (2017). The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
• —— (2024). "National League of American Pen Women". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000382072. (subscription or UK public library membership required)