Mitchell Morris (MA, Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) specializes in Music at the fin-de-siècle, Russian and Soviet music, gay and lesbian studies, opera and rock and soul. He has published on gay men and opera, disco, contemporary music and the ecology movement, and Alexander Scryabin, in journals such as repercussions as well as in collections such as Musicology and Difference, En Travesti, and Audible Traces. Prof. Morris also teaches courses in the area of Medieval and Renaissance musical aesthetics. He is currently editing a collection of essays entitled Disco's Distinctions: Essays on Music, Race, Sexuality, and the Market for the University of California Press.