Gillian Gower, Curriculum Vitae
GILLIAN L. GOWER, PH.D.
ggower@ucla.edu
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION | |
2016 | Ph.D., Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles |
Dissertation: “The Iconography of Queenship: Sacred Music and Female Exemplarity in Late Medieval Britain.” | |
2011 | M.A., Music, Hunter College, City University of New York |
2006 | B.A., Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS | |
2024–present | Independent Scholar |
2022-2023 | Lecturer in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles |
2020-2023 | Honorary Research Fellow, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh |
2020-2022 | Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Denver |
2020 | Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh, “Towards a Prosopography of Scottish Musicians Before the Reformation” (PIs: Dr. James Cook and Dr. Adam Whittaker) |
2018-2019 | Lecturer in Musicology and Music Industry, University of California, Los Angeles |
2016-2018 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, Southern Methodist University |
PUBLICATIONS | |
Gower, Gillian L. “Race-ing Plainchant: Theodore of Tarsus, Hadrian of Canterbury, and the Voices of Music History.” Global Exchanges in the North Atlantic, ca. 350–1300, edited by Nicole Lopez-Jantzen, Nahir Otoño-Gracia, and Erica Weaver. Special section in Viator 51(1) (2020) [October 2021]: 103-120. | |
Gower, Gillian L. “A Musical Letter from Eleanor of Provence to Margaret of Scotland: Patronage as Authorship in the Sequence Ex te lux oritur.” In Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages, edited by Lisa M. Colton and Anna Kathryn Grau, 422-456. Brill's Companions to the Musical Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, vol. 5. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2022. | |
Gower, Gillian L. “Disciplining Guinevere: Courtly Love and the Arthurian Tradition from Henry Purcell to Donovan Leitch.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism, edited by Stephen Meyer and Kristen Yri, 484-508. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. | |
Rouse, Richard H., Mary A. Rouse, Stacey Graham, Rhiannon Knol, Kristen St John, and Gillian Gower, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts of the UCLA Library Special Collections: I. The Richard and Mary Rouse Collection. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017. | |
Review of William J. Summers and Peter M. Lefferts. English Thirteenth-Century Polyphony: A Facsimile Edition, Early English Church Music 57 (London: Stainer and Bell, 2016) in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 94.1 (January 2019). | |
Review of Thomas Kelly, Capturing Sound: The Story of Music Notation (New York: W. W. Norton, 2014), in Echo: A Music-Centered Journal 13 (2015), http://www.echo.ucla.edu/review-gower-capturing-music/ | |
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS | |
2023 | “The Prosopography of Premodern Scottish Music.” Annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Denver, CO, November 2023. |
2022 | James Cook, Ralph Corrigan, Gillian Gower, and Adam Whittaker. “Music in Pre-Reformation Scotland: Adventures in Digital Prosopography.” Joint panel presentation. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, University of Uppsala, Sweden, July 2020. |
2021 | “Joan of Navarre’s Patronage of John Dunstable.” Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference (virtual/hybrid), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2021. |
2020 | “The Racial Implications of the Illuminations in the Squarcialupi Codex (I-Fl MS Mediceo Palatino 87).” New England Medieval Conference (virtual), December 2020. |
“The Passion of Miley Cyrus: Medievalism as Pop Feminism in ‘Mother’s Daughter.” Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory (virtual), November 2020. | |
“Towards a Decolonized Medievalism.” Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2020. | |
James Cook, Ralph Corrigan, Gillian Gower, and Adam Whittaker. “Towards a Prosopography of Scottish Music Before the Reformation.” Joint panel presentation. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2020. | |
“The Passion of Miley Cyrus: Medievalism as Pop Feminism in ‘Mother’s Daughter.’” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2020. Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic. | |
2019 | “Towards a Decolonized Medievalism.” Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Boston, MA, November 2019. |
“Sources of Plainchant in the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at UCLA,” Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Basel, Switzerland, July 2019. | |
“A Musical Letter from Eleanor of Provence: Filial Affection and Ritual Embassy in the Sequence Ex te lux oritur,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2019. | |
“’A Crown to Her Husband’: Gendered Authority and Ritual Embassy in the Sequence Ex te lux oritur,” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2019. | |
2018 | “Medievalist Themes in Martin Phipps’ Scores for The Virgin Queen (2006) and Victoria (2016-),” International Society for the Study of Medievalism, Brock University, Ontario, October 2018. |
“’Gloriana, Alleluia:’ Medievalist Themes in Martin Phipps’ Scores for The Virgin Queen (2006) and Victoria (2016-),” Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, July 2018. | |
2016 | “Revisiting the Manuscript New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M. 978,” Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Vancouver, Canada, November 2016. |
“Reading in the Digital Darkroom,” Inertia: Momentum Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, April 2016. | |
2014 | “Where’s the Music?” Roundtable on Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture, Reading Matters: 25th Annual Friends of English Southland Graduate Conference at UCLA, May 2014. |
“On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Musical Mirrors and the Public Lives of Medieval Queens,” 19th International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2014. | |
“Musical Models of English Queenship in the Later Middle Ages,” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, UCLA, April 2014. | |
2013 | “On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Musical Representations of Queenship in the Fifteenth Century,” UC Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference, May 2013. |
2012 | “Riot Culture: Beats, Banksy, and the Bristol Sound,” Joint meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music and Experience Music Project, NYU, March 2012. |
INVITED TALKS, GUEST LECTURES, AND WORKSHOPS | |
2022 | “Teaching Global Early Music.” Invited lightning talk, Workshop on Inclusive Pedagogy in the Medieval Music Classroom, International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, MI, May 2022. |
2022 | Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop Series, University of Denver Lamont School of Music (presenter and convener)
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2022 | “Music and Musicians at the Trinity: A Prosopography Case Study—Mary of Gueldres and Networks of Elite Women’s Patronage” (invited talk, with Dr James Cook, Dr Adam Whittaker, Dr Ralph Corrigan, and Paul Newton-Jackson), Reviving the Trinity Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh (virtual), January 19, 2022. |
2021 | “Working Towards Inclusivity in Early Music History and Pedagogy” (faculty workshop), Lamont School of Music Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, University of Denver, April 27, 2021. |
2019 | “Music Manuscripts and Their Notation” (guest lecture), English Paleography with Dr. Matthew Fisher, UCLA, November 7, 2019. |
2018 | “Music Notation in the UCLA Library Special Collections” (guest lecture), Medieval Manuscripts with Dr. Elizabeth Randell Upton, UCLA, December 4. 2018. |
“Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium and Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians” (pre-concert talk), SMU Percussion Ensemble and SYZYGY, Southern Methodist University, February 23, 2018. | |
2015 | “Josquin and Ockeghem” (guest lecture), Music, History, and Culture to 1500 with Dr. Elizabeth Randell Upton, UCLA, November 24, 2015. |
“The Layers of the Old Hall Manuscript” (guest lecture), Music Sources: Manuscripts and Printed Editions with Dr. Mark Kligman, UCLA, October 14, 2015. | |
2014 | “Big Freedia’s Dance Floor: Finding Refuge in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” Music and Gender with Alexandra Apolloni, UCLA, May 20, 2014. |
2013 | “The ‘Contenance Angloise’: England in the Late Middle Ages” (guest lecture) Music, History, and Culture to 1500 with Dr. Elizabeth Randell Upton, UCLA, November 12, 2013. |
2012 | “Music Notation in the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at UCLA” (guest lecture), Medieval Music Manuscripts with Dr. Lauren Jennings, University of Southern California, November 13, 2012. |
COURSES TAUGHT | |
2022-2023 | Lecturer in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles |
Fall 2022 | MUSCLG 125: History of Western Music I—The Era of Church and Patron (undergraduate lecture) |
Winter 2023 | MUSCLG 68: The Beatles (undergraduate lecture) |
2020-2022 | Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Denver |
Spring 2022 | MUAC 1019: American Popular Music (undergraduate lecture for non-majors) MUAC 2053: Baroque Music (undergraduate lecture) |
Winter 2022 | MUAC 2052: Medieval and Renaissance Music (undergraduate lecture) ASEM 2545: Advanced Seminar: Medievalism in Music and Popular Culture (undergraduate seminar) |
Fall 2021 | MUAC 2054: Classical Music (undergraduate lecture) MUAC 3991: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Medieval Queenship and Music (independent study) MUAC 4499: Topics in Musicology: Global Early Music (graduate seminar) |
Spring 2021 | MUAC 2053: Baroque Music (undergraduate lecture) ASEM 2545: Advanced Seminar: Medievalism in Music and Popular Culture (undergraduate seminar) MUAC 4499: Topics in Musicology: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (graduate seminar) |
Winter 2021 | MUAC 2052: Medieval and Renaissance Music (undergraduate lecture) ASEM 2545: Advanced Seminar: Medievalism in Music and Popular Culture (undergraduate seminar) MUAC 4160: Issues in Opera History and Adaptation (graduate seminar) |
Fall 2020 | MUAC 2054: Classical Music (undergraduate lecture) MUAC 4499: Topics in Musicology: Digital Approaches to Medieval Music (graduate seminar) |
2018-2019 | Lecturer in Musicology and Music Industry, University of California, Los Angeles |
Fall 2018 | MSC IND 101: Music Industry, Science, and Technology (undergraduate seminar) MUSCLG 127: Music, Sound, and Structure (undergraduate lecture) |
Winter 2019 | MSC IND 101: Music Industry, Science, and Technology (undergraduate seminar) |
2016-2018 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, Southern Methodist University |
Spring 2018 | MUHI 4347 Symphonic Literature: The Symphonic Canon (undergraduate seminar) MUHI 6335 Introduction to Graduate Studies (graduate seminar) MUHI 6336 Music and Medievalism (graduate seminar) |
Fall 2017 | MUHI 3301 Survey of Music History I, ca. 800-1850 (undergraduate lecture) MUHI 6335 Introduction to Graduate Studies (graduate seminar) Opera Outreach Programs in the US and South Africa (independent study) |
Spring 2017 | MUHI 4347 Symphonic Literature (undergraduate seminar) MUHI 6336 Music and Medievalism (graduate seminar) MUHI 6345 Issues in Opera History: Adaptation (graduate seminar) |
Fall 2016 | MUHI 3301 Survey of Music History, ca. 800-1750 (undergraduate lecture) MUHI 6347 Issues in Symphonic Literature (graduate seminar) MUHI 4345 Survey of Opera History (undergraduate seminar) |
2015 | Instructor in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles |
Summer 2015 | MH136 Music and Gender (undergraduate lecture; cross-listed in Musicology and Gender Studies) |
2012-2016 | Teaching Assistant to Fellow, Department of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles |
| Taught weekly discussion section meetings, held one-on-one meetings, supervised student research, and graded all student assessments. |
MH8 History of Electronic Dance Music MH135B History of Opera: The Romantic Period MH135C History of Opera: The 20th Century MH5 History of Rock and Roll MH137 LGBTQ Popular Music MH125A Music in History and Culture: The Middle Ages MH125B Music in History and Culture: The Renaissance MH12W Writing About Music | |
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS | |
2022 | American Musicological Society Janet Levy Fund Award to support the publication of Queenship and Music in Medieval England: Allegory, Authority, and Authorship |
2019 | American Musicological Society Travel Grant |
2016 | Southern Methodist University Faculty Development Grant |
2015 | UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Student Opportunity Fund Award |
2015 | UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies Travel Grant |
2014-2015 | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Department of Musicology, UCLA |
2014-2015 | Del Amo Fellowship, Department of Musicology, UCLA |
2014 | Van Nostrand Summer Fellowship, Department of Musicology, UCLA |
2013 | Summer Research Mentorship, Graduate Division, UCLA |
2012 | Van Nostrand Summer Fellowship, Department of Musicology, UCLA |
2011-2012 | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Department of Musicology, UCLA |
2011-2012 | Dean’s Fellowship, Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA |
2011 | Class of 1895 Award for Academic Excellence, Hunter College |
2009 | Libby van Arsdale Prize for Research, Hunter College |
SERVICE | |
2022-present | Member, American Musicological Society Council |
2017-present | Contributor, Inclusive Early Music, http://inclusiveearlymusic.com |
2021 | MA Thesis Committee Member, University of Denver (Juliet Levy) MM Examiner, University of Denver (Lilli Bailey-Duran, Lauren Ballew, Emily Holmstead, Kimberly Stanish) |
2019-2022 | Co-chair, Musicology at Kalamazoo (Committee sponsoring and organizing sessions at the annual International Medieval Congress Meeting at Kalamazoo, MI) |
2018 | MA Thesis Examiner, Southern Methodist University (Andrew Penney) MA Proposal Examiner, Southern Methodist University (Rebeca Ramos) |
2016-2018 | Member, Dallas Area Medievalists Association |
2012-2016 | Editor-in-Chief, Echo: A Music-Centered Journal |
2013-2015 | Editorial Board Member, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
2013-2014 | Co-chair, UCLA Medieval and Early Modern Students Association |
2013 | Graduate Student Representative to the Musicology Faculty, UCLA |
2012-2013 | Musicology Department Graduate Representative, Dean of the School of Arts and Architecture |
2012-2013 | Musicology Department Representative, Humanities Council, UCLA |
2012-2013 | Co-coordinator, Distinguished Lectures Series, Department of Musicology, UCLA |
2011-2012 | Editorial Board Member, Echo: A Music-Centered Journal, 2011-2012 |
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED | |
2016 | Inertia: Momentum, 2nd Annual Conference on Sound, Media and the Digital Humanities, UCLA, April 28-30, 2016 |
2015 | Inertia: A Conference on Sound, Media, and the Digital Humanities, UCLA, April 30-May 2, 2015 |
2012 | Musical Networks Conference, UCLA, October 19-20, 2012 |
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS | |
American Musicological Society | |
Medieval Academy of America | |
Musicology at Kalamazoo | |
Royal Studies Network | |
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship | |
LANGUAGES | |
English (native speaker) | |
French (reading/conversational) | |
German (reading) | |
Latin (classical and medieval) | |
Middle English | |
Older and Middle Scots | |
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE | |
2019 | Interim Program and Research Developer, Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles. |
2015 | Instructor of Record, Department of Music History, University of California, Los Angeles (Summer Quarter) |
2012–2016 | Teaching Assistant to Fellow, Department of Music History, University of California, Los Angeles |
2013 | Research Assistant to Prof. Tamara Levitz, Department of Musicology, UCLA |
2012-2014 | Research Fellow and Assistant to Prof. Richard Rouse and Mary Rouse, Center for Primary Research Training, University of California, Los Angeles |