University Courses Taught

Music History & Culture, etc.
(Lecturer, Instructor, Visiting Professor)

Statement of Teaching Philosophy (PDF)

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University of California, Los Angeles (Visiting Lecturer)

• America in the Sixties: Politics, Society, Culture, 1954-74
  (music lectures, GE Cluster, Fall 2007)
• Performance/Analysis - music history
  (4th-year seminar, Fall 2007)
• Popular Music in Appropriation, Covers, Versions & Parody
  (music history seminar, Winter 2008)
• Music History 5: 1888 to 1945 in "The West"
  (music major core history, Winter 2008)
• America in the Sixties: Popular Music and Ideology, 1965-75
  (GE Cluster seminar, Spring 2008)
• America in the Sixties: Film Music, 1954-74
  (GE Cluster seminar, Spring 2008)

University of Guelph (Instructor, part-time)

• Issues in Popular Music Studies
  (third-year seminar, Winter 2006/2007)

Dalhousie University (Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2006)

• History of Music 1: Medieval & Renaissance Music
  (music major core history)
• History of Music 5: Music Since 1945
  (music major optional history course)
• Choral Music: Histories, Styles, Forms
  (4th-year seminar, special topics)
• The History of Jazz
  (2nd-year, non-major arts elective)

Georgian College (Instructor, part-time)

• Popular Music and Culture I
  (Fall 2003/2004, two sections in Fall 2004)
• Popular Music and Culture II
  (Winter 2004/2005 - two sections in Winter 2005, plus Summer 2005)

University of Alberta (Visiting Instructor, full-time)

• Analysis & Interpretation: Music Theory & Cultural Musicology in the Study of Popular Music
  (music graduate seminar, Fall 2002)
• Harmony and Form, 1700-1870
  (theory 3, 2nd-year music major course, Fall 2002, two sections)
• Genre, Style, Gender, Power: Film Music Case Studies
  (music graduate seminar, Winter 2003)
• Analyzing Popular Music
  (theory 6, 3rd-year music major course, Winter 2003)

University of Waterloo (Instructor, part-time)

• Understanding Music
  (music appreciation, Winter 2001, Spring 2001, Spring 2002)
• Fundamentals of Music Theory
  (Winter 2002)

University of Western Ontario (Instructor, part-time)

• Popular Music as Culture
  (Fall 2001)

University of California, Los Angeles (Instructor, part-time)

• Analogues of Darkness: The Music of Film Noir & Hitchcock Suspense-Thrillers
  (Collegium of University Teaching Fellows, Winter 2000)
• Film and Music
  (co-taught with Daniel Goldmark, Summer 1999)

Other Teaching Experience

University of California, Los Angeles (Teaching Assistant, 1995-99)

• Music Appreciation (Cole; Fall, Winter, and Spring of 1995-96)
• History of Opera I, II, and III (Cole; Fall, Winter, and Spring of 1996-97)
• American Popular Song (Westby, Fall 1997)
• Music in Twentieth-Century Western Culture (McClary, Winter 1998)
• Film and Music (Westby, Spring 1998; Chihara, Spring 1999)
• History II: Twentieth-Century (LeGuin, Winter 1999)
• History of Rock and Roll (Walser, Fall 1998)

University of Toronto (Teaching Assistant, 1989-93)

• Music History, Medieval and Renaissance Music, World Music, Music Appreciation