Marian Wilson Kimber is an American musicologist and a Professor of Music at the University of Iowa.

Having completed a dissertation on the autograph scores of Felix Mendelssohn's piano concertos, Wilson Kimber received her PhD in Musicology from Florida State University in 1993.^[1] Her work covers topics of gender, biography, performance, and bibliography in the nineteenth century. Specifically, she has published on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Jane Austen, spoken-word recitation to musical accompaniment, and female performance genres.^[2] Wilson Kimber's recent book The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word (University of Illinois Press, 2017), was a recipient of grants from both the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music.^[3]

• Kimber, Marian Wilson (2017). The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.
• —— (2024). "National League of American Pen Women". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000382072. (subscription or UK public library membership required)