Hyun Kyong Hannah Chang is a Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield, having previously been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at New York University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. Her current research explores the intersection of music, Pacific empires (Japan and the United States), and personhood in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Korea. From 2021 to 2023, she will be conducting a research project titled ‘Pacific Voicings: Korean Hymns and Prayers in the Age of Empires, 1884–1945’ as an AHRC Research, Development, and Engagement Fellow. Her next project will be on modernist composers in East Asia.
Sarah Hickmott is Assistant Professor of French at Durham University. Her work concerns the relationship between (ideas about) music and recent French thought, with a particular interest in how this relates also to ideas about gender. Her recent monograph, Music, Philosophy and Gender in Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, Badiou, was published by EUP in 2020, and her current work is exploring narratives (whether literary, philosophical, or scientific) about the origins of music.
Stephen Johnson is a PhD candidate and a Raymond N. Ball Fellow at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. His dissertation focuses on Kim Jong Il's revolutionary opera project and its nation-building potential for North Korea. He has presented research at the New York Conference on Asian Studies and the national conferences of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Music Theory. He recently received honourable mention in the Association for Korean Music Research's student paper competition for his work on form and cultural hybridity in revolutionary opera.
Bess Xintong Liu is a PhD candidate in historical musicology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her main research interest lies in Sino-Western musical exchanges during the twentieth century, with focuses on cosmopolitanism, aesthetics, and cultural politics. She is keen to incorporate oral history and microhistory into her scholarship. She is currently writing her dissertation, ‘Resonant China: Transnational Music-making and the Construction of the Public, 1934-1958', which primarily focuses on musicians’ networks that originated in China but expanded globally.
Jennifer Milioto Matsue is a Professor at Union College in upstate New York and received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago in 2003. She is the author of Making Music in Japan's Underground: The Tokyo Hardcore Scene (Routledge, 2008) and Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan (Routledge, 2015).
Pwyll ap Siôn is Professor of Music at Bangor University. Recent publications include chapters in Rethinking Reich (Oxford University Press, 2019), which he co-edited with Sumanth Gopinath, Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama (Routledge, 2019), and Howard Skempton: Conversations and Reflections on Music (Boydell & Brewer, 2019). He also writes for Gramophone magazine and contributes reviews to the Bachtrack online music website.
Hon-Lun Helan Yang is Professor of Music at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is the lead author of the monograph Networking the Russian Diaspora: Russian Musicians and Musical Activities in Interwar Shanghai (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020). She is also the co-editor and chapter contributor of China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception (University of Michigan Press, 2017). Her book chapters appear in volumes including The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Social Class (2019), The Oxford Handbook of Music Censorship (2018), Composing for the State (Ashgate, 2016), Music and Protest in 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and her articles in Journal of Musicological Research (2019), Journal of the American Liszt Society (2018), Twentieth-Century Music (2018), Music and Politics (2013), Twentieth-Century China (2012), International Review of Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (2011), and Asian Music (2010).
Serena Yang is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Musashino Art University. She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of California, Davis in 2020. Her research interests include twentieth-century music, experimental and contemporary music in the United States and Japan, East Asian studies, cross-cultural studies, and sound studies. Her dissertation examines the previously unexplored cultural exchange between Cage and Japan since the end of the Second World War. Her work has been published in the Journal of the Society for American Music and Music Research Forum, and she has presented papers at the meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the International Musicological Society. She has received fellowships from the Taiwan government, the American Musicological Society, the Association for Asian Studies, the Japan Foundation, and the Nippon Foundation.
