Kristin Wendland

Kristin Wendland is a Professor of Pedagogy in the Department of Music at Emory University in Atlanta, where she teaches undergraduate music theory and history and culture classes at all levels. With over fifteen years of extensive work in Argentine tango, she has developed courses on tango music and dance, established the Emory Tango Ensemble— for which she arranges music and provides coaching—and co-authored Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music with Kacey Link (Oxford, 2016). Throughout nearly two decades of annual travel to Buenos Aires, Wendland received a Fulbright Lecture and Research grant in 2005, organized two professional development institutes on Argentine tango through the College Music Society in 2007 and 2009, and directed a three-week Emory Tango Music and Dance Summer Study Abroad Program in July 2011.