Contributors to issue 6:2
- Contributors to issue 6:2
Todd Decker is Assistant Professor of Music at Washington University in St Louis. He is the author of Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and jazz (University of California Press, 2011) and Show Boat: Performing race in an American musical (Oxford University Press, 2012), and winner of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Best First Book Award.
tdecker@artsci.wustl.edu
Catherine Haworth is a Research Fellow in the School of Music, Humanities and Media at the University of Huddersfield, where she is a member of the Centre for the Study of Music, Gender and Identity (MuGI). Her research focuses upon musical practices of representation and identity construction across various media; her article on scoring the female investigator in 1940s Hollywood is forthcoming in Music & Letters.
c.m.haworth@hud.ac.uk
Kristin McGee is Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her book Some Liked it Hot: Jazz women in film and television, 1928–1959 (Wesleyan University Press, 2009) considers the role of audiovisual media in the performative lives of American jazz women in the first half of the twentieth century. She has also published on the aesthetic and cultural boundaries between popular music and jazz as historicised within various periods. Her research highlights the performative nature of musical cultures as constituted by the ideologies of gender, race, and sexuality.
kamcgee32@yahoo.com
John McGrath John McGrath is a PhD candidate in music at the University of Liverpool where he is writing an AHRC-funded thesis exploring Samuel Beckett’s aesthetic of music alongside disparate composers’ approaches to his work, from Morton Feldman to Scott Fields. He holds a BA and BMus from University College Dublin, alongside an MPhil from Trinity College, Dublin. John has contributed to the forthcoming collection Time and Space in Words and Music, and has presented papers in Germany, UK, and Ireland. Main areas of research interest include word and music studies, improvisation, experimental music, and film music.
mcgrath.jp@gmail.com
Scott D. Paulin is a Lecturer in Musicology at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. His research interests include film accompaniment practices of the silent era; music’s contribution to star performance and personae in the Hollywood studio system; and music and sound in documentary film. His recent publications include ‘Piercing Wagner: The Ring in Golden Earrings,’ in the collection Wagner and Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2010), and ‘Chaplin and the Sandblaster: Edmund Wilson’s Avant-garde Noise Abatement,’ in the journal American Music (2010).
s-paulin@northwestern.edu [End Page 265]
Steven Beverburg Reale joined the faculty of Youngstown State University in 2009 as Assistant Professor of Music after earning his PhD in Music Theory at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on intersections of music and narrative, and he has published and presented research on video game music and Wagner’s Ring cycle as well as on mathematical models of metric dissonance.
smreale@ysu.edu
Daniela Schwark is studying for a PhD at the University of Hull under supervision of Dr. Alexander Binns. Her research focuses on the idea of historical identification through sixteenth-century music in film. She is also a classical guitarist, guitar tutor, and teacher of German.
d.schwark@hull.ac.uk
Brian Walter is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Convocations at the St Louis College of Pharmacy. His scholarly and professional work has appeared in, among others, Boulevard, The Southern Quarterly, Essays in Literature, and CineAction.
Brian.Walter@stlcop.edu [End Page 266]
