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Dr. Teri Herron
Dr. Teri A. Herron is an Assistant Professor in the Music Department. She teaches a variety of courses including private voice lessons, German & French Lyric Diction, Vocal Pedagogy and the Blackboard 2011 Exemplary Course Award winning class Music in American Culture (MUS114). Blackboard is a global leader in enterprise technology and innovative solutions that improve the experience of millions of students and learners around the world every day. The Exemplary Course Award highlights technologically rich, engaging, well designed, and pedagogically sound courses that showcase best practices for the user community. [Follow this link to view a video tour of Music in American Culture.]
A native of Iowa, Dr. Herron is a veteran of the opera stage having performed numerous roles including: the Witch in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, Ottavia in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, Candace Whitcomb in Paulus's The Village Singer, the Mother in Menotti's Amahl & the Night Visitors, Lady Billows in Britten's Albert Herring, La Ciesca in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Mrs. Gobineau in Menotti's The Medium, the New Prioress in Poulenc's Les Dialogues des Carmélites, and Mrs. Bassett in Hoiby's Summer & Smoke. Dr. Herron is also an active recitalist and concert performer. Most recently she has appeared as the alto soloist in Mozart’s Coronation Mass and as the soprano soloist in Part I of Handel's Messiah. She enjoys working with talented colleagues and appeared in a collaborative DSU Music faculty Liederabend recital, as well as the "Evening of Spanish Song" recital with guest artist Kimberly Jackson Carballo of Indiana University, Bloomington.
Dr. Herron is an active scholar and has presented papers at numerous conferences and symposia, including BbWorld 2011, the International Conference on Arts and Humanities, the New Voice Educator's Symposium, Music Language & the Mind, and the College Music Society's Southern Regional Conference. Dr. Herron also appears regularly as a guest lecturer and was most recently invited by the DSU Gender Studies Group to present her lecture "But You're A Guy!!!: Issues of Gender and Sexuality Stereotyping in the World of Male Hula Dancers" at Delta State.
Dr. Herron chairs the DSU Music Department Library Committee, is the Webmaster for the Gender Studies Group, serves on the Music Department Alumni Relations committee, the University’s Library and Special Program committees, serves as a faculty mentor for Delta State’s GST 100 – Emerging Scholars program, and is an IT faculty liaison. She also serves as the Auditions Chair for the Mississippi State NATS chapter.
Dr. Teri Herron
Department of Music
Box 3256
Delta State University
Cleveland, MS 38733
662.846.4783