Contributors to Issue 8:1
- Contributors to Issue 8:1
Rick Altman is Emeritus Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, where he and his students have developed new approaches to cinema sound, film genres, and narrative theory. His most recent books are Silent Film Sound and A Theory of Narrative. He continues to present his Living Nickelodeon performances, most recently in the US, Germany, and Belgium. rick-altman@uiowa.edu
Marco Alunno has diplomas in piano and composition from the musical institute of his native town, Livorno, and a degree in Italian Literature from the University of Florence. He later completed his PhD in Composition at the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, NY) where he served as an instructor in composition and Italian cinema. At present he is Professor of Composition and Theory at the Universidad EAFIT in Medellín (Colombia), where he works both as a scholar in film music and a composer of concert music. pupil72@gmail.com
Jack Curtis Dubowsky is a composer, author, educator, and filmmaker. Submerged Queer Spaces is his directorial feature debut. Dubowsky’s short films have screened at the BFI and film festivals worldwide. He has received grants from Meet the Composer, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the National Queer Arts Festival, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the San Francisco Foundation, and the American Composers Forum, among others. His sheet music is distributed through J.W. Pepper, Sheet Music Plus, and Theodore Front Musical Literature. Dubowsky is a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has taught at McNally Smith College of Music, NYU, and Academy of Art University. His forthcoming monograph, Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness, will be released by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. @jackCDubowsky (twitter)
Annabel Fleming-Brown is an AHRC-supported collaborative doctoral student at the University of Glasgow and the British Library. Her research focuses on British film music of the twentieth century with a special interest in the musical director Muir Mathieson. a.fleming-brown.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Carl Laamanen studied at Texas Tech University and is currently engaged in doctoral work in English at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on the intersections of film, sound, and religion, with recent work published in Journal of Religion & Film and Cinephile. carl.laamanen@gmail.com
Tobias Pontara is Reader in Musicology at the University of Gothenburg. Being a former professional flutist, Pontara received his PhD in Musicology from the University of Stockholm. Pontara’s research interests lie chiefly in film music and musical aesthetics, but he has also written on issues pertaining to musical autonomy as well as the cultural and epistemological status of historically informed [End Page 109] performances. The journals in which he has published articles include 19th-Century Music, Philosophical Studies, and Swedish Journal of Musicology. tobias.pontara@gu.se
Colleen Renihan teaches Music History at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB, Canada. She received a PhD in Musicology from the University of Toronto in November 2011. Her research considers aspects of opera and operatic culture from a postmodern perspective, by exploring issues of cultural politics, performance, temporality, memory, the intersection of opera and film, the crossover between popular music and opera, and opera’s ramifications for current debates in the philosophy of history. crenihan@mta.ca [End Page 110]
