Johanna Keller
Director
Goldring Arts Journalism Program
Associate Professor in Newspaper & Communications
Office: 364A-II
Telephone: (315) 443-2419
Email: jokeller@syr.edu

Johanna Keller teaches writing and communications at Newhouse, directs the Goldring Arts Journalism program, and is a core faculty member of the Renee Crown Honors Program. In 2008 she received the Meredith Teaching Recognition Award from Syracuse University, and in 2007 she was nominated by the Goldring students and received the SU Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award that honors professors who have a significant contribution to graduate education and mentoring.

Keller writes about music and culture for The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, London Evening Standard, Los Angeles Times, Opera News, Symphony, Musical America, Strad and other magazines in the U.S. and the U.K and she is a columnist for the magazine, Central New York: The Good Life. For her essays in The New York Times, she received the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York. She has been a USC Annenberg Getty Fellow in Los Angeles and a journalism fellow at the Banff Centre in Canada. Keller was editor of Chamber Music magazine and during her tenure the publication received its first six national awards for excellence in editorial and design.

Keller’s current project is editing a collection of essays about the musical pedagogue, Nadia Boulanger. For her literary writing she has received the annual Editor’s Prize from The Florida Review, an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYSCA), and an Artist Grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. In 2007 she served as the first nonfiction editor of Stone Canoe, a new journal of arts and ideas from upstate New York, and she is a member of the journal’s advisory board.

Keller has lived in Manhattan for three decades where she taught writing at Eugene Lang College at The New School University and held administrative positions at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. A nationally recognized arts journalism advocate, she was elected to two terms on the national board of directors of the Music Critics Association of North America and was a principal organizer of the 2005 National Critics Conference that took place in Los Angeles, and has served on the Pulitzer Prize Jury at Columbia University.

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