Luca Sala

Luca Lévi Sala PhD is currently serving as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University during the Fall 2025 semester. In 2025, he will assume the role of Associate Adjunct Professor at Manhattan University where he was Adjunct Assistant Professor since 2020. From 2021 to 2025, he was a Visiting Scholar at New York University. In 2021, he served as a Visiting Teaching Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and as a Visiting Teaching Professor at UAM in Poznań, Poland. Prior to these roles, he held the position of Professeur Associé at the Université de Montréal from 2017 to 2020. He was a Visiting Researcher at NYU in 2017 and a Visiting Research Fellow at Yale University from 2015 to 2016. In 2023, in collaboration with Prof. Mark A. Pottinger, chair of the Department of Communication, Sound and Media Arts at Manhattan University, he co-founded the international scholarly journal Sound Studies Review (Brepols). He has authored a diverse range of publications, including articles, chapters, reviews, and reports, in esteemed international journals and books. His works have been featured in publications such as Early Music (OUP), Journal of Musicological Research, Notes, Revue de musicologie, Studi musicali, Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, Ad Parnassum Journal, Studia Chopinowskie, Eighteenth-Century Music (CUP), Analecta Musicologica, Oxford Bibliographies Online (OUP), MGG (OUP), and Grove Music Online (OUP). Furthermore, the author has served as a peer reviewer for several journals, including Journal of Musicology, Journal of Jewish Identities, Early Music, Studia Chopinowskie. His forthcoming book, titled Music Criticism and Politics in the Italian Fascist State (1930-1940): Ideology, Eugenics, and Identity, has been contracted for publication by Palgrave Macmillan (New York) in 2026.