Alexander Carpenter, PhD, MA, BMus

Professor, Augustana - Fine Arts & Humanities

Director, Faculty of Arts - Wirth Institute

Personal Website: https://alexandercarpenter.academia.edu/

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Contact

Professor, Augustana - Fine Arts & Humanities

Email: acarpent@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 679-1571
Address: Founders' Hall
4901 46 Ave

Camrose AB

T4V 2R3

Director, Faculty of Arts - Wirth Institute

Email: acarpent@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-4326
Address: 300-B Arts Building (Main & Conv Hall)
113 St and 91 Ave

Edmonton AB

T6G 2E6

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Musicology popular music 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 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

AUMUS 170 - Tuning In: An Introduction to Music

Development of listening approaches and techniques for understanding and appreciating a variety of Western and non-Western music, and an examination of the ideologies that prompt the sampling of such music. Music studied includes Western art music, African music, First Nations music, North Indian music, and popular music.

Winter Term 2025