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Neil Lerner, Associate Professor

Office Location: Sloan Music Center 108
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:00 - 4:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 704-894-2941
Email: nelerner@davidson.edu

B.A.,  English, Music, Transylvania University, summa cum laude
A.M., Musicology, Duke University
Ph.D., Musicology, Duke University

Courses Taught:
CIS 220, Introduction to Film and Media Studies
CIS 221, Interactive Digital Narratives
MUS 101W, Writing's About Music
MUS 110, Exploring Music
MUS 122, Music of the United States
MUS 223, Copland
MUS 228, Film Music
MUS 229, U.S. Culture of the 1950s
MUS 271, Modernism/Postmodernism
MUS 325, Music History I: Antiquity to 1800
MUS 328, Music History II: After 1800
MUS 380, Herrmann/Hitchcock
MUS 401, Senior Seminar
   2007 topic: Music and Contemporary Cultural Studies
   2004 topic: Music and War
   2001 topic: Music and Gender
HUM 160, Cultures & Civilizations I
HUM 251, The Western Tradition: The Modern World

A specialist in the history and analysis of music and cinema, Neil Lerner has research interests in music in U.S. film & media, cultural history, and disability studies. At Davidson since 1997, he has also taught at Duke University, Centre College, and with the Kentucky Governor’s Scholars Program. Trained as a pianist, bassoonist, and harpsichordist, Lerner is learning how to play the theremin, and he sometimes composes incidental music and creates sound design for theater projects. He has served on the National Council of the American Musicological Society and as president of the American Musicological Society-Southeast chapter.

Regional, national, and international presentations, including papers for the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Royal Music Association, Domitor, Orphans, Visible Evidence, the Society for Disability Studies, and the SlayageConference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

At present he is researching the use and function of music in videogames, studying the instrumental music in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and serving on the editorial boards of the journals American Music and Music, Sound, and the Moving Image. He is the faculty advisor for Davidson College's chapter of Hillel.

Selected Publications