Arya Roshanian is a PhD student in Historical Musicology with a certificate in Comparative Literature and Society. He holds an MFA in Writing from Columbia University and a BA in Music from University of Southern California.
His primary research explores the relationship between style and aesthetics in music, dance, and literature. He is especially interested in the mechanics of humor between Slavic writers and Russian and Soviet composers; choreographic psychologies and musical phenomenology in twentieth- and twenty-first-century ballet; and musico-poetic synthesis in Soviet and Post-Soviet opera and song. He also studies vocalities and dramatic expression in Italian opera of the primo ottocento.
Additionally, Arya enjoys an active career as an essayist and critic. He regularly writes for The New York Times, and his bylines also appear in The New York Review of Books, BOMB, PAPER, 4Columns, Gawker, and elsewhere.
