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Sydney Boyd is the program manager for strategic initiatives and engagement at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning and the Cornell Council for the Arts. Before joining Cornell, she served as Assistant Professor of Writing at Wells College, Assistant Director for Academic Affairs at NYU DC and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies at NYU, as editor at the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and as Founding Faculty of English Literature at Bard DC. Her scholarly work studies cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations and how music shapes narrative temporalities in twentieth-century literature. She has published peer-reviewed articles in Arizona Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, and Public Humanities on cross-disciplinarity, twentieth-century literature, music, sound, and time. As an arts critic, she has published articles on opera, Classical music, dance, visual art, and film for Houstonia Magazine, Houston Chronicle, Bachtrack, ArtsJournal, Arts + Culture Texas Magazine, and the Washington Classical Review. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in English from Rice University and degrees in music and English from the University of Idaho.
