Rosemary Killam, Professor of Music Theory

B.M., Eastman School of Music, M.A., George Washington University, D.M.A., Stanford University. Her early research and publication in computer-assisted instruction culminated with her grant from the Apple Education Foundation for courseware development. As principal investigator, her completed courseware was used in two years of international workshops for the development of music CAI. Killam's research centers on relationships of aural cognition, folk/popular music, and music theory pedagogy within contexts of feminist theories. She served on the Society for Music Theory CSW for six years and now serves as Liaison from the International Alliance for Women Musicians to the Society for Music Theory. In 1991, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Research in Women and Gender, Stanford U. In 1995, she participated in the Yale University NEH Seminar on American Popular Ballads directed by Allen Forte. She has published in Journal of Music Theory, College Music Society Symposium, Perspectives of New Music, Music Theory Online, Women of Note Quarterly, Jnl. Of Music Theory Pedagogy, and the International Association of Women Musicians Jnl. In 1997, she was Writer in Residence at the Gell Foundation Center, Naples, NY, and the Glenessence Writing Colony, Ridgecrest, CA. For the academic year 1998-99, she was a Research Professor for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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