shelina brown is an assistant professor of musicology at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati (CCM). Shelina completed her doctoral studies in musicology with a concentration in gender studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her MA thesis explored the history of Japanese popular enka song, and her PhD dissertation explored Yoko Ono's music and feminist activism. She is currently in the process of adapting her work on Yoko Ono into a book project and digital lecture. At CCM, Shelina has developed courses on Critical Theory and Music, Gender Studies and Music, Voice & Gender, Feminist Methods, Women in Rock, East Asian Perspectives in Global Music History, and a seminar devoted to the music and activism of Yoko Ono.nina penner is assistant professor of music at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Her book Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater (Indiana University Press, 2020) offers the first systematic exploration of how sung forms of drama tell stories. Her work on screen media appears in Music and the Moving Image, the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, and Unwinnable. She is currently working on a project about audio-only games and accessibility for blind and low-vision gamers.stephen rumph is professor of music history at the University of Washington. He is the author of three books from the University of California Press: Beethoven After Napoleon: Political Romanticism in the Late Works (2004), Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics (2011), and The Fauré Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861–1921 (2020). He also edited The Cambridge Companion to French Art Song (2026) and coedited the Cambridge Fauré Studies (2021) with Carlo Caballero. He sings professionally as a lyric tenor, appearing regularly in opera and concert.
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