Megan Sarno (PhD, Princeton University) is a musicologist whose research investigates connections between music, literature, art and philosophy in Parisian intellectual culture of the early 20th century. Her publications on literary and cultural inspirations in the music of Camille Saint-Saëns, André Caplet and Claude Debussy appear in the journals 19th-Century Music and Journal of Musicological Research as well as the edited collections Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century and Creative Women of the Interwar Period. She is currently completing her monograph, Not Unknown but Unsayable: French Music and Mystery in the Early Twentieth Century. 

Before coming to Temple, Sarno was Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Arlington, where her dedication to her students and the creativity, sensitivity and curiosity she brings to the classroom was recognized with an award for Outstanding Teaching. She particularly enjoys mentoring students, for example by sponsoring undergraduate research assistants, teaching independent study courses and advising master’s theses. 

Sarno enthusiastically serves the field of musicology. She previously served as President of the Southwest Chapter of the AMS. She regularly serves as a blind peer reviewer for journals, chairs panels at national and regional meetings of the AMS, and reviews books; her book reviews appear in Notes, Revue de musicologie, and Journal of the American Musicological Society.