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.
James Deaville teaches Music in the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University. One of his primary areas of interest is music and sound in various aspects of audiovisual media, ranging from news and newsreel music and sound to music for film trailers. He edited Music in Television (Routledge, 2010) and with Christina Baade co-edited Music and the Broadcast Experience (Oxford, 2016). He co-edited with Ron Rodman and Siu-Lan Tan the Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising (2021), and with Ron Rodman, Jessica Getman, and Brooke McCorkle Okazaki is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Music and Television (2025). In 2019 he received a four-year Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for research on sonic representations of disability in screen media, which has resulted in an article for The Soundtrack (2024) and a chapter in the Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Peak TV (2025) on the captioning of music in streaming television. With Júlia Durand, Toby Huelin, and Melissa Morton he co-edited a special issue of Music, Sound and the Moving Image (2024) on library music. And with Michael Baumgartner and Maria Behrendt he is preparing a collection of essays on music and moving images in the Third Reich.
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).