Music / Theatre

Gage Averill, PhD

Gage Averill, PhD

Dean

Popular music, Caribbean music, barbershop harmony, sound, music and power, music and politics, ethnomusicology, world music

Sarika Bose, PhD

Sarika Bose, PhD

Sessional Lecturer

Victorian drama, Oscar Wilde, British culture, British children’s literature (fantasy), British royal family, royals

Robert (Bob) Pritchard, DMA

Assistant Professor

Music composition, interactive music, computer music, electronic music, computer applications in music, interdisciplinary studies, improvisation, laptop orchestra, interactive video, Canadian accent studies

Jonathan Girard

Jonathan Girard

Director of Orchestras, Assistant Professor of Conducting and Ensembles

Conducting, orchestra, opera, new music, conducting pedagogy, orchestral repertoire, symphonic music, orchestral music, orchestration, Berlioz, Stravinsky

David Metzer, PhD

David Metzer, PhD

Professor

Popular Music, Popular Culture, Classical Music, Jazz, LGBTQ in Popular Culture

Mark Anderson, MA, BMus

Mark Anderson, MA, BMus

Assistant Professor of Piano, Chamber Music and Piano Pedagogy

Piano pedagogy, piano teaching, early music development, piano technique, piano repertoire, piano chamber music, arts funding in the US and Canada

Liane Gabora, PhD

Liane Gabora, PhD

Professor

creativity, computational creativity, cultural evolution, computer models of cultural evolution, concepts, agent-based models, physical light as metaphor for psychological constructs

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh, BMus

Elizabeth Volpé Bligh, BMus

Adjunct Professor, Harp

Harp, music, orchestra, chamber music

Stephen Hunt, MFA CreWri

Stephen Hunt, MFA CreWri

Adjunct Professor

Theatre, criticism, cultural, diversity, white, guys, race

George Belliveau, PhD

George Belliveau, PhD

Professor of Theatre Education

Drama, theatre, arts-based research, applied theatre, military veterans, research-based theatre, men’s health, creativity, education innovation

Patrick Rizzotti

Patrick Rizzotti

Assistant Professor of Scenic and Production Design

Theatre, theatre design, scenic design, production design, film design, devised theatre, virtual reality, AR, augmented reality, mixed reality, XR, site specific, storytelling, narrative

Dr. Helena Wu, PhD

Dr. Helena Wu, PhD

Assistant Professor of Hong Kong Studies

Hong Kong, Hong Kong culture, cinema, and literature, identity, popular culture, media, spectatorship, community,