Jane Fulcher received her MA and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She teaches courses and seminars that focus on 19th and particularly 20th-century music within its larger cultural, social, political, and intellectual contexts. A specialist in French music, she is especially interested in the relation between music and cultural theory from a sociological, anthropoligical, and historical, as well as from a literary perspective. Dr. Fulcher is General Editor of the New Cultural History of Music Series of Oxford University Press and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music (Oxford University Press, 2011).

She has received fellowship awards from ACLS, NEH, the Wissenschaft Kolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris), the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, New Jersey). She has also served three times as a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).