College of Musical Arts

Associate professor and associate dean; holds degrees from Ingesund College of Music and the Royal College of Music in Sweden, McGill University in Montreal and a doctorate from Gothenburg University in Sweden; has presented papers at conferences of the American Musicological Society, the American Society for Aesthetics, Canadian University Music Society, College Music Society, International Association for the Study of Popular Music (U.S.), International Musicological Society, Royal Musical Association, Society for Music Theory, the Nordic Musicological Congress and the Swedish Musicological Society; author of Back to the Future: Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Bengt Hambraeus (Gothenburg University Press, 1999), the chapter “New Music of Sweden” for New Music of the Nordic Countries (Pendragon Press, 2002) and is the co-editor of What Kind of Theory Is Music Theory? (Stockholm University Press, 2008); has contributed articles to a number of Swedish periodicals, journals and newspapers, as well as Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Perspectives of New Music, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Journal of Popular Music Studies, College Music Symposium, Woody Allen and Philosophy (Open Court, 2004) and South Park and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2006); has written numerous liner notes for the BIS and Deutsche Grammophon labels; is editor of the internet journal STM-Online; and has served on the faculties of the Swedish Conservatory (Jakobstad, Finland), the University College of Music Education (Stockholm), Örebro University, Luleå University of Technology (Sweden) and Butler University.