Curriculum Vitae — Luis-Manuel Garcia
Contact Info
Luis-Manuel Garcia
Department of Music, Humanities Division
University of Chicago
1115 E. 58th Street
Chicago, IL, 60637
Send message to theluisgarcia at gmail dot com for phone number
Education
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- current Doctor of Philosophy in Music (Ethnomusicology)
- Proposal: “ ‘Can You Feel It, Too?’: Intimacy and Affect at Electronic Dance Music Events.”
- Committee: Travis A. Jackson (supervisor), Steven Rings, Lauren Berlant, Kaley Mason
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada- 2004 Master of Arts in Music (Musicology)
- Master's Thesis: “The Soft Pink Meaning: A Case Study of Close Reading in Electronic Dance Music.”
- 2002 Bachelor of Music (Music History & Culture)
Employment
- University of Chicago, Department of Music, Chicago, Illinois
- 2009–2010 Lecturer
- “Nightlives: Music and Nighttime” (MUSI 23910), a self-designed course funded by the Whiting Teaching Fellowship
- “Music in Western Civilization I” (MUSI 121)
Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris, France- 2008–2009 Enseignant de langue (Language Instructor)
- Taught advanced English to undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on academic speaking and writing
University of Chicago, Department of Music, Chicago, Illinois- 2008 Lecturer
- Co-Lecturer, MA-level “Theories of Gender and Sexuality” (GNDR 314) with Lauren Berlant
- “Music in Western Civilization I & II” (MUSI 121-2)
- “Introduction to World Music” (MUSI 102)
- 2008 Course Assistant
- Assisted Travis Jackson with “Introduction to World Music”
University of Toronto, Department of Music, Toronto, Ontario, Canada- 2002–2004 Teaching Assistant
- Assisted Mary Ann Parker and John Haines with music history courses, “Historical Survey I & II”
- Gave guest lecture for Celia Cain’s “Music, Media and Technology”
Honors and Awards
| 2009 | Whiting Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago | |
| 2008–2009 | Assistanceship for Alternative Learning Technologies in Paris University of Chicago, College I.T. and Study Abroad Program |
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| 2008 | Wadmond Research Fund, University of Chicago | |
| 2006–2007 | Assistanceship for Alternative Learning Technologies in Paris University of Chicago, College I.T. and Study Abroad Program |
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| 2006 | Cathy Heifetz Memorial Award, University of Chicago | |
| 2004–2009 | Five-year Century Fellowship, University of Chicago | |
| 2003–2004 | Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Ministry of Training | |
| 2003–2004 | Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada | |
| 2003–2004 | Gordon Cressey Student Leadership Award, University of Toronto | |
| 2002–2003 | Tuition waiver and internal graduate fellowship |
Professional Activities and Awards
| 2006–Present | Founding Member and Co-Coordinator, Affective Publics Workshop, University of Chicago | |
| 2007–2009 | Student Seat Officer, International Association for the Study of Popular Music | |
| 2007–2008 | President, Graduate Music Society, University of Chicago | |
| 2003–2004 | Co-President, Music Graduate Students Association, University of Toronto | |
| 2003–2004 | Member, Decanal Selection Committee, University of Toronto | |
| 2002–2003 | Representative (Music), Graduate Student Union, University of Toronto | |
| 2001-2002 | Member, Selection Committee, University of Toronto |
Performance/Creative Activities
| 2005–2007 | Georgian Vocal Ensemble, founder and director | |
| 2004–2006 | Early Music Ensemble, vocalist | |
Memberships
American Musicological Society
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
Society for American Music
Society for Ethnomusicology
Society for Music Theory
Scholarly Publications
| (forthcoming) | “Liquidarity: Fluid Solidarities at Electronic Dance Music Events in Berlin and Paris” in Experiencing Mutuality: Culture, Technology and the Senses in European Music Scenes, edited by Carsten Wergin and Fabian Holt. | |
| (forthcoming) | In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press:
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| 2005 | “On and On: Repetition as Process and Pleasure in Electronic Dance Music.” Music Theory Online 11 (4). | |
Reviews
| 2007 | Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory by Marc Perlman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004). Music Theory Spectrum 29.2: 247–253. | |
| 2003 | Music, Body and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard von Bingen to Chaucer by Bruce W. Holsinger (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Discourses in Music 4 (2). | |
Presentations
| 2010 | “Homo-Something: Men Touching Men and Vague Pleasure in Paris Nightclubs.” Paper to be read in the Queer Commodity Cultures Seminar at the Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (CSA), Berkeley, California, March 18-20. | |
| 2010 | “Smooth Experience, Rough Experience.” Paper to be read at the joint meeting of the EthNoise!, Theater and Performance Studies, and Gender and Sexualities Workshops of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 8. | |
| 2008 | “You, Me and Vocoder Makes Three: Distortion and Digital Intimacy.” Paper read at the Meeting of the US chapter of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM- US), Iowa City, Iowa, April 24-27. | |
| 2007 | “Intimacy at the Sonic Surface.” Paper read at the EthNoise! Workshop of the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 15. | |
| 2006 | “Vazaleen, Affect and Utopia: Sliding Public Spheres into Private Places.” Paper read at the Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 16-19. | |
| 2005 | “The soft pink meaning(s): multiple readings and the Soft Pink Truth.” Paper read at the Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-Intl), Rome, Italy, July 25-30. | |
| 2004 | “On and On: Repetition as Process and Pleasure in Electronic Dance Music.” Paper read at the Joint Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (SMT) and the American Musicological Society (AMS), Seattle, Washington, November 13. | |
| 2004 | “Dancing with the Wrong Crowd: Identity and Genre Politics among Electronic Dance Musics.” Paper read at the Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Tucson, Arizona, November 5. | |
| 2003 | “Future Music: Discourses of Modernism, Futurism and Intellectualism in Techno.” Paper read at the Music Graduate Students' Association Conference, at University of Toronto, Canada, April 12. | |
NOTE: A "traditional" PDF version of this Curriculum Vitae is available upon request.
