William Cheng

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Music

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As an Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, I conduct research and teach varied courses in history, media, ethics, disability, race, and digital games. I received a B.A. in Music and English from Stanford University in 2007, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Harvard University in 2013. Between 2012–16, I was a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows. During Fall 2019, I will serve as Acting Chair of Dartmouth’s Department of Music.

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Education

  • B.A. - Stanford University (Music, English) with Distinction and Honors, 2007
  • M.A. - Harvard University (Music), 2009
  • Ph.D. - Harvard University (Music), 2013
  • Post-doc - Harvard Society of Fellows, 2012-16

Selected Publications

  • SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS

    Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014). Foreword by Richard Leppert

    Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (University of Michigan Press, 2016). Foreword by Susan McClary.

    Loving Music Till It Hurts (Oxford University Press, 2019)

     

    EDITED VOLUMES

    Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, ed. with Greg Barz, 2019)

    A Cultural History of Music in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury Academic, ed. with Danielle Fosler-Lussier)

     

    ARTICLES

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