Music at Wesleyan University

35 faculty and 37 courses in Music at Wesleyan University.

Faculty

• Sumarsam, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music h-index 7
• Saida Daukeyeva, Assistant Professor of Music h-index 1
• Abraham C. Adzenyah, Adjunct Professor of Music, Emeritus
• Alcee Chriss, University Organist; Assistant Professor of Music
• Anthony Braxton, John Spencer Camp Professor, Emeritus
• Anya Shatilova, Visiting Professor of Music
• B. Balasubrahmaniyan, Adjunct Professor of Music
• Chia-Yu Joy Lu, Director, Chinese Music Ensemble
• Darius Aston Jones, Assistant Professor of Music
• David Paul Nelson, Adjunct Associate Professor of Music
• Eric Charry, Chair; Professor of Music
• Fumi Tanakadate, Visiting Instructor in Music
• Hansini Bhasker, Teaching Graduate Student, Music
• I. Harjito, University Professor of Music
• James John Praznik, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Music
• Jane Alden, Professor of Music; Professor, Medieval Studies
• Jay Clinton Hoggard, Professor of Music; Professor, African American Studies
• Jin Hi Kim, Director, Korean Drumming Ensemble, Music
• Jocelyn Tamara Lenore Pleasant, Visiting Instructor in Music
• Jody Cormack Viswanathan, Visiting Scholar in Music
• John E Biatowas, Director, Chamber Music Ensemble
• John Wesley Dankwa, Assistant Professor of Music
• Marichal B Monts, Conductor, Ebony Singers
• Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Emeritus
• Nadya Potemkina, Director of Private Music Lessons; Adjunct Associate Professor of Music
• Neely Bruce, Professor of Music; John Spencer Camp Professor
• Noah Baerman, Visiting Assistant Professor; Director, Jazz Ensemble
• Paula Matthusen, Director of Graduate Studies; Professor of Music
• Peter B. Ganbarg, Visiting Professor of Music
• R. Walden Moore, Visiting Professor of Music
• Roger Mathew Grant, Dean of the Arts and Humanities; Professor of Music
• Ronald Ebrecht, University Organist, Emeritus
• Ronald J. Kuivila, Director, Electronic Music Studios; Professor of Music
• Salvatore LaRusso, Director, Wesleyan Wind Ensemble
• Su Zheng, Director of Undergraduate Studies; Associate Professor of Music

Courses

• World Music MUSC102
• Materials and Design MUSC103
• Rhythms of the World: An Introduction to Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Time MUSC104
• MF DOOM and Pierre Henry MUSC105
• A Thousand Years of Music History MUSC106
• History of Rock and R&B MUSC108
• Introduction to Experimental Music MUSC109
• Introduction to South Indian Music MUSC110
• Music and Theater of Indonesia MUSC111
• Introduction to North Indian Music MUSC115
• Visual Sounds: Exploring the Landscape and Architecture of Musical Notation MUSC116
• Jazz in the 1960s (FYS) MUSC119F
• Music, Place, and Culture: An Exploration of African American Soundscapes and Traditions (FYS) MUSC120F
• Queering Russian Music MUSC121
• Sample, Remix, Reuse, and Replay: Approaches to Musical Adaptation in Audiovisual Culture MUSC122
• Music and Downtown New York MUSC125
• The Art of Listening MUSC129
• Gender and Sexuality in Hip Hop (FYS) MUSC131F
• Video Game and Anime Music Since the Year 2000 (FYS) MUSC134F
• Tonal Harmony MUSC201
• Theory and Analysis MUSC202
• Chromatic Harmony MUSC203
• 20th Century Compositional Techniques MUSC204
• Song: Music and Text MUSC205
• Post-Tonal Music Theory MUSC208
• Theory of Jazz Improvisation MUSC210
• Composing, Performing, and Listening to Experimental Music MUSC220
• Live-Electronics for Composition, Improvisation, and Sound Art MUSC221
• Sound Art, Music, and Interactive Media MUSC222
• Music, Recording, and Sound Design MUSC223
• Music of the 20th Century MUSC244
• Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: Music Journalism and Public Musicology MUSC249
• African Presences I: Music in Africa MUSC265
• Sacred and Secular African American Musics MUSC269
• History of Jazz in American Culture MUSC272
• BlaQueer Sounds: Queer Negotiations in African American Music MUSC273
• Jazz Avant-Gardes MUSC277

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.