Katherine Walker, Ph.D. (Cornell University), is a Professor of Music at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century musical aesthetics, the intersections of race and popular music in the United States since 1920, and scholarship on teaching and learning. She is the author of Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism (Routledge, 2024), a textbook on music criticism.