Susan Erickson’s writings cover a broad range of musicological interests, focused mainly on baroque performance practices, baroque women composers, and literary and musical connections, specifically in the novels of British author Rebecca West.

Her Ph.D. dissertation “The Keyboard Music of Domenico Zipoli (1688–1726)” Cornell University, 1975, published under the name of Susan Elizabeth Erickson-Bloch, has long been considered the most authoritative work on this composer in the English language. It includes the first modern edition of this composer’s “Sonata for Violin and Bass.”

Dr. Erickson has been a regular contributor of reviews to NOTES, the Journal of the Music Library Association, as well as the Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music. Her reviews and articles have also appeared in Current Musicology, 19th Century Music, Sounds Australian (she served as co-editor for “The Woman’s Issue,” Summer 1993–1994), Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Re-visions: Proceedings of the New Zealand Musicological Society and the Musicological Society of Australia.

She has been a contributor to the Historical Anthology of Music by Women (Indiana University Press, 1987 and 2004), both as author of the article on Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre and as co-editor along with Robert Samson Bloch of the first modern edition of that composer’s cantata Semelé. She also appears as harpsichordist in the recording that accompanies the Anthology.