Celia Applegate
Celia Applegate is William R. Kenan Jr. Chair of History and a professor of German studies at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of A Nation of Provincials: The German Idea of Heimat, The Necessity of Music: Variations on a German Theme, and Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohn’s Revival of the “St. Matthew Passion” as well as a coeditor (with Pamela Potter) of Music and German National Identity.
