About the Author

Christopher Scheer is the assistant professor of musicology at Utah State University. He holds a PhD from the University of Michigan where he completed a dissertation on the roles of Imperialism and Wagnerism in the music and career of Gustav Holst. His research interests focus on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century British musical culture. In 2010, he was chosen as the Leverhulme Visiting International Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University, where he spearheaded an international interdisciplinary colloquium on the role of Theosophy in the shaping of arts in the early twentieth-century.