Co-Chair Bios
Lisa Scoggin completed her Ph.D. in Musicology at Boston University and received degrees from Oberlin College and the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Her musicological interests include music in film, television, animation, and video games. She has published on numerous aspects of these topics, including a monograph on the music of the animated show Animaniacs (Pendragon, 2016) and as co-editor (with Dana Plank) and contributor for the collection The Intersection of Animation, Video Games, and Music: Making Movement Sing (Routledge, 2023). Future projects include a short history of music in American television animation in the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Music in Television and a chapter on the Epic Mickey video game series in the upcoming Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical.
Jordan Stokes is an associate Professor of Music History at the West Chester University of Pennsylvania Wells School of Music, where he teaches early music, film music, and game music. His published research includes articles and book chapters on popular song in film, Max Steiner’s use of chromatic harmony, and Guillaume de Machaut’s theories of music and poetry.
Daniel Bishop is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he teaches in the Music in General Studies program and the Musicology department. He is the author of The Presence of the Past: Temporal Experience and the New Hollywood Soundtrack (Oxford University Press, 2021).