Lauren Ninoshvili

Lauren Ninoshvili joined the Barnard faculty in 2010. She is currently completing a book, Polyphony at Play: Georgian Song and the Poetics of Excess, which documents her ethnographic work at the intersections of music and language in the South Caucasus Republic of Georgia and its emergent diasporic formations. A newer research project explores sound design in the works of Georgian filmmaker Otar Iosseliani--specifically, his use of meticulously curated musical repertoire, obscured speech, and eccentric sound effects to craft slow-moving film worlds that defied Soviet socialist-realist dictates.

Professor Ninoshvili earned her PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University and BA in Music and Russian Regional Studies from Barnard College. In addition to her academic engagements, she is an active instrumental and vocal collaborative pianist in the NYC metropolitan area.

She has published in Music and Politics, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Current Musicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music, MUSICultures, Popular Music and Society, Ulbandus, and in edited collections.