Music and Dance Advisory Board
Janette Tilley, PhD.
Associate Professor and Deputy Chair, CUNY Lehman College
Janette Tilley is Associate Professor of Musicology at Lehman College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Her primary research area is German music of the seventeenth-century and she is interested in issues of religious experience, gender, rhetoric, and performance. She edits an open-access collection of scholarly editions for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and advocates for sustainable and practical digital projects in the humanities.
Lisa Shiota
Music cataloger, Library of Congress
Lisa Shiota is currently a Music Cataloger at the Library of Congress. She was previously Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress, Catalog Librarian at The Curtis Institute of Music, and Electronic Acquisitions Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written digital media reviews for Notes: the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, and was a contributor to the book Careers in Music Librarianship III: Reality and Reinvention. She serves on the Music Library Association Board of Directors as recording secretary.
Georgina Binns
Discipline Librarian, Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Georgina has worked at the National Library of Australia, and in academic libraries variously as a cataloguer, acquisitions and collection management librarian, and subject librarian specialising in music, art, theatre and dance. She is now managing the collections and services for the largest creative arts faculty in an Australian university, with two libraries at two campuses. Georgina provides leadership for a team providing specialised scholarly literacy programs in the creative arts, collection building with increasing digital content for new materials, and a significant rare music and arts collection. Her interests include the role of the library as a “maker space” and interactive environment within creative arts faculties; creative arts based scholarly literacy within a practice based pedagogy; alternate metrics for creative arts research output; and in her spare time cycling, gardening, art gallery and concert going! Georgina is professionally involved, speaking regularly at conferences and workshops; with publications and online conference papers disseminated. She is currently Vice President and former IAML (Australia) President; Corresponding Editor; Fontes Artis Musicae: Journal of IAML; program manager of the IAML Sydney International Conference in 2007; and on organising committees of Melbourne-based IAML and Art Libraries Information Society Australia New Zealand conferences.
Kris Shaffer, PhD
Instructional Technology Specialist, Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies
University of Mary Washington
Contributing Editor, Hybrid Pedagogy
pushpullfork.com
Kris Shaffer, Ph.D. (Yale University, 2011), is Instructor of Music Theory at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Editor for Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. He is also the lead author and editor of Open Music Theory, an open-source, interactive “text”book for undergraduate music theory courses.
Kris’s research centers around the music of twentieth- and twenty-first-century composers, computational analysis, music pedagogy, education, and new media publishing. His research appears in Hybrid Pedagogy, Digital Humanities Now, Music Theory Online, Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy (for which he served as coordinating editor), and Educating Modern Learners. He has presented at the the annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory, THATCamp Southeast, Yale University, the University of Colorado, the University of Delaware, and numerous regional conferences in music theory. Kris has also written on technology for Linux Journal and the Open Source Technology Group.
Laura Ritchie, PhD.
Instrumental/Vocal Teaching and MA Performance Programmes Coordinator, University of Chichester
Dr. Laura Ritchie is Coordinator of both the Instrumental / Vocal Teaching and the MA Performance programmes at the University of Chichester, England. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the UK Higher Education Academy in 2012. Laura trained as a classical cellist in America (Northwestern University) and London (Royal College of Music) and later toured and played on the Jools Holland Show with the band The Mummers. Laura’s PhD research focused on psychology of music and specifically the impact of students’ self-beliefs on learning and performing. Her 2015 book with Palgrave Macmillan, Fostering Self-Efficacy in Higher Education Students, promotes excellence in teaching and learning, and in particular provides innovative ways to unlock student potential through everyday interactions. She enjoys working across disciplines and actively advocates open learning with projects such as her open music class #MUS654, cross-disciplinary collaborations with Jonathan Worth and #Phonar, bringing the Musiquality initiative to America, and as a co-founding member of the Open Source Learning Foundation.
