Statement of Teaching Philosophy
Course Evaluation Excerpts
All subsequent links are to PDFs of selected course outlines.
University of California, Los Angeles (Visiting Lecturer, full-time)
- 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, full-time, 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)
Laurentian University at 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 / Conrad Grebel College (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