Assaf Shelleg (Hebrew: אסף שלג) is an Israeli-American musicologist and pianist, a senior lecturer of musicology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was previously the Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology and Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia (2011–2014), and had taught prior to that as the visiting Efroymson Scholar in the Jewish, Islamic & Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Department at Washington University in St. Louis (2009–2011). Shelleg specializes in art music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (historical musicology, musicological historiography, cultural history, post-tonal theories, postcolonialism, neoliberalism, and contemporaneity) while focusing on the cultural networks in which art music wa