Craig Milton Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music at Yale University.
Education
He studied at the Eastman School of Music from 1962-1966, and at Harvard University from 1966 and 1972, where he obtained an Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in musicology. Wright completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1972 with a thesis titled Music at the court of Burgundy, 1364-1419.
Career
After a year teaching at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, he moved to Yale in 1973, serving as the chair of the department of music from 1986 to 1992. Wright specialises in music history. His early work concentrated on Middle Ages and renaissance music
More recently, he started to work on Mozart.
He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. In 2004 he was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Chicago and in 2010 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
On May 15, 2013, Wright was named the first Academic Director of Online Education at Yale University.