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Áine Heneghan recently joined the music theory faculty at the University of Michigan. Prior to this appointment, she was on the faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle. Before moving to the United States, she taught at University College Dublin, where she held a research fellowship, and at the University of Dublin, Trinity College, where she completed her PhD. Her research interests include the music and theoretical writings of the Second Viennese School, sketch and source study, the history of theory (with an emphasis on theories of form), performance practice and, recently, the analysis of world music. She has published in the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center, Music Analysis, the Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, and Notes, as well as in collections published by Pendragon Press and Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Currently completing a book entitled Schoenberg on Form (as part of the Schoenberg in Words series for Oxford University Press), she is also preparing a monograph that explores the interrelationship, and interdependence, of Schoenberg's composing and theorizing. She has undertaken extensive archival research in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. on topics relating to early twentieth-century musical thought (compositional, philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical), and has presented her research at various meetings (including the Society for Music Theory, American Musicological Society, Society for Music Analysis, and Royal Musical Association) and given invited lectures in North America and Europe. She has also been a Fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. Her research has been supported by grants from the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, the Österreichischer Austauschdienst (Austrian Academic Exchange Service), the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service), the Avenir Foundation (sponsors of the Arnold Schönberg Privatstiftung, Vienna), the University of Washington Royalty Research Fund, and, most recently, the American Association of University Women. Professor Heneghan is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory. Previously she served the Society as a member of its Committee for the Status of Woman and, as a student representative, its Professional Development Committee. She chaired (with Julian Horton) the Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis, the first event of its kind to take place in Ireland, as well as the local arrangements and program committees for the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis. Having recently served on the editorial board of Music Theory Spectrum, she is now a member of the editorial boards of Analytical Approaches to World Music and Music & Politics. Born in Mayo in the west of Ireland, she devoted many years to playing the Irish harp. She toured extensively with Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, taught at numerous summer schools, and won the All-Ireland (Fleadh Ceoil na hÉireann), Pan-Celtic International, and other major harp competitions. She is now active as a judge at traditional Irish music festivals.