Alexander Carpenter, PhD, MA, BMus
Contact
Professor, Augustana - Fine Arts & Humanities
- Phone
- (780) 679-1571
- Address
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Founders' Hall
4901-46 AveCamrose ABT4V 2R3
Director, Faculty of Arts - Wirth Institute
- acarpent@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4326
- Address
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300-B Arts Building (Main & Conv Hall)
113 St and 91 AveEdmonton ABT6G 2E6
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Musicology film music aesthetics psychoanalysis zombies
About
I am a musicologist, music critic, and rock musician. I studied voice and music history at Brock University, music criticism at McMaster University, and historical musicology at the University of Toronto, where I earned a PhD. At Augustana, I have served as Director of Music and as Chair of Fine Arts and Humanities.
At present, I am also the Director of the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the Edmonton campus of the University of Alberta.
Research
Research areas: Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, fin-de siecle-Vienna, popular music, music and psychoanalysis, zombies in popular culture, film music.
Teaching
Teaching areas: music history/musicology, cultural history, popular music, aesthetics, theory/harmony, interdisciplinary studies
Courses
AUPHI 365 - Aesthetics
Considerations of theoretical issues related to visual arts, broadly understood and of sense experience.