Jack (Jacek) Blaszkiewicz is a musicologist specializing in nineteenth-century French music, criticism, and aesthetics. His research and teaching interests include opera and operetta, street music, urban history, theories of listening, sight-reading, and historical sound studies.

Jack is the author of Fanfare for a City: Music and the Urban Imagination in Haussmann’s Paris (University of California Press, 2023). The book uncovers the foundational role that urbanization played in shaping the city’s musical life between the years 1850 and 1870. His scholarly articles appear in the journals 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Current Musicology, and the Journal of Musicology. His 2022 article, “Verdi, Auber and the Aida-Type,” won an ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. 

His fiction explores place, placelessness, immigration, and fatherhood under late capitalism. His first short story, "Party in Tiltsville, Florida," appears in Gargoyle Magazine.  

Jack has been the recipient of numerous grants, including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 Fellowship, and the M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet award from the American Musicological Society. Awards include the Wayne State Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award (2025), the Academy of Scholars Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2024), and the General Education Teaching Award (2023).

Jack teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music history. Recent graduate seminar offerings include "Reading Opera," “Sound and the City,” “Paris: Music Capital of Modernity,” and “Music and Enlightenment Aesthetics.” In his undergraduate classes, students discuss a range of issues that bring history into contact with current issues, such as gatekeeping in classical music, labor issues, technology, and pedagogy.

Jack holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Eastman School of Music. Before joining the music history faculty at Wayne State, he taught at Williams College, Eastman, and Stony Brook University.

Jack is open to reviewing and lecturing opportunities.
Email him at j.blaszkiewicz@wayne.edu