James Massengale

James Rhea Massengale is an American musicologist and former professor at UCLA, who has specialised in the Swedish poets Carl Michael Bellman and Olof von Dalin.

[1] He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

[2] He was educated at Yale University (BA 1961), Cambridge University (MA 1968), and Harvard University (PhD in Scandinavian literature 1972).

He was a professor at UCLA from 1970 to his retirement in 2006.

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The Swedish Gustavian age poet and performer, Carl Michael Bellman , Massengale's specialty