Björn Heile is Professor of Music (post-1900) at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Music of Mauricio Kagel (2006), the editor of The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music (2009), (2009), co-editor (with Peter Elsdon and Jenny Doctor) of Watching Jazz: Encountering Jazz Performance on Screen (2016), co-editor (with Eva Moreda Rodríguez and Jane Stanley) of Higher Education in Music in the Twenty-First Century (2017) and co-editor (with Charles Wilson) of The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music (2019). He specializes in new music, experimental music theater and jazz, with particular interests in embodied cognition, global modernism, and cosmopolitanism.
Currently he is Principal Investigator of the research network “Towards a Somatic Music: Experimental Music Theatre and Theories of Embodied Cognition” funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is writing a book with the working title A Global History of Musical Modernism for Cambridge University Press.
