Ketty Wong

Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin; M.M. The University of Texas at Austin; M.F.A. Conservatory P.I. Tchaikovsky; B.A. Conservatorio Nacional Antonio Neumane

Ketty Wong joined the KU faculty in August 2006, having taught previously at the University of Texas at Austin and in her home country Ecuador. She is a member of Ecuador’s National Academy of History and a former Fulbright U.S. Senior Scholar in China.

Wong is the author of Whose National Music? Identity, Mestizaje, and Migration in Ecuador (2012), Luis Humberto Salgado: Un Quijote de la Música (2004), and co-author of Corsino Durán: Un trabajador del pentagrama musical (1993). A Spanish version of her book Whose National Music? received the Casa de las Américas Musicology Award for the best monograph on a Latin American music topic written in 2010, and was published in Cuba (2012) and Ecuador (2013). This book also received an award for the best publication on an Ecuadorian topic from the Latin American Studies Association Ecuadorian Section in 2013. She has written articles and reviews for Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Latin American Music Review, Worlds of Music, Boletín Música de la Casa de las Américas (Havana), Cuadernos de Nación (Bogotá), Revista Ecuador Debate (Quito), and the Virtual Library of the Banco Central del Ecuador.

Wong was a visiting scholar at the Peking University during her Fulbright year in China and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including scholarships and grants from the Fulbright Commission in Ecuador, the ex-USSR government, the Delta Kappa Gamma International Fellowship, and the University of Texas at Austin. She was the assistant editor of the Latin American Music Review (1997-1999).