Governing Board
James Buhler received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, he taught at Carleton College and the University of Wisconsin—Madison. His research interests include the history and theory of the sound track, auditory culture, and critical theory. He has published extensively in edited anthologies as well as in Nineteenth-Century Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cambridge Opera Journal and Modernism/Modernity among others. Along with David Neumeyer and Caryl Flinn, Professor Buhler edited a collection of essays on film music for Wesleyan University Press (2000). He is also author with David Neumeyer of Hearing the Movies, a textbook on music and sound in film for Oxford University Press, now available in a second edition (2016). He is currently completing a manuscript, Theories of Soundtrack.
Charles Carson – read his biography on the Musicology & Ethnomusicology website.
Jeff Hellmer – read his biography on the Jazz Studies website.
Jerry Junkin – read his biography on the University Bands website.
Hannah Lewis– read her biography on the Musicology & Ethnomusicology website.
Robin Moore – read his biography on the Musicology & Ethnomusicology website.
John Turci-Escobar – read his biography on the Butler School of Music website.
Dr. Eric Dienstfrey – 2018-19 Postdoctoral Fellow