Jeffrey Kallberg (Ph.D., 1982, The University of Chicago), is a specialist in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, editorial theory, critical theory, and gender studies. Kallberg has published widely on the music and cultural contexts of Chopin, most notably in his book, Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex History, and Musical Genre (Harvard University Press).

His critical edition of Luisa Miller, for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (Casa Editrice Ricordi and The University of Chicago Press), has been performed throughout Europe and the United States at such venues as the Cincinnati May Festival; the Teatro alla Scala, Milan; the Rome Opera; the Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam; the Köln Opera; the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; the Zurich Oper; the Oslo Philharmonic; and the Teatro San Carlo, Naples. Kallberg is also the author of the articles on "Gender" and "Sex, Sexuality" for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed., (London, Macmillan, 2001). His current projects include a book on convergences of sex and music around 1800 and a study of Scandinavian song in the first half of the twentieth century.

He served as Review Editor of the Journal of American Musicological Society and is presently general editor of New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Cambridge University Press). His awards for publications include the Alfred Einstein prize of the American Musicological Society (for best article by a younger scholar), the Richard S. Hill award of the Music Library Association (for best article on a bibliographical topic), the Stefan and Wanda Wilk Prize for research in Polish music, and the Stefan and Wanda Wilk Book Prize for research in Polish Music. He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He also has twice been guest of honor at the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Poland.

Kallberg speaks often at scholarly conferences and colloquia in the United States and Europe, and frequently gives pre-concert lectures for the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Specialist in music of the 19th and 20th centuries, editorial theory, critical theory, and gender studies. Alfred Einstein prize of the American Musicological Society, 1984. Richard S. Hill award of the Music Library Association, 1984. National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, 1985, Guggenheim fellowship, 1992. Kallberg publishes widely on the music and cultural contexts of Chopin, most notably in his book, Chopin at the Boundaries: Sex History, and Musical Genre (Harvard University Press). His recent construction of Chopin's first sketch for a Prelude in E-flat minor for the eventual set of Preludes, op. 28, attracted world-wide coverage in the press. Kallberg prepared a critical edition of Luisa Miller for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, and also wrote the articles on "Gender" and "Sex, Sexuality" for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2d ed. His current projects include books on Chopin's nocturnes and on convergences of sex and music around 1800, and a study of Scandinavian song in the first half of the twentieth century. He is general editor of New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism (Cambridge University Press).