Assistant Professor
Music Theory
Dr. Gui Hwan Lee (He/His/Him, the first name "gui-huan" and the last name "lee") is a researcher of intercultural creativity in contemporary art music, film soundtracks, and East Asian popular culture. Gui Hwan's publication outputs include a study of Parasite (Bong Joon Ho, 2019) in Journal of Music and the Moving Image (forthcoming) and a chapter about Unsuk Chin (b. 1961)'s music in Countering Coloniality in Music and East Asia (working title). As an interdisciplinary scholar/instructor, Gui Hwan is also expanding his interests to alternative pedagogies for music theory, African American cinema, and medieval fantasy video games.
PhD in Critical Music Studies (2023) at Stony Brook University; MM in Musicology and MM Music Theory (2017) at the University of Cincinnati; BM in Violin Performance (2012) at Kyung Hee University.
Gui Hwan is enthusiastic about various 'classics,' including (but not limited to) Hollywood classics, fantasy classics like The Lord of the Rings, anime classics like Studio Ghibli films, and video game classics like the Dark Souls series.
Eric Guinivan
Associate Professor
Composition/Theory Area Coordinator
guiniver@jmu.edu
Jason Haney
Professor
haneyjx@jmu.edu
Gui Hwan Lee
Assistant Professor
lee3gh@jmu.edu
Judith Ofcarcik
Assistant Professor
ofcarcjj@jmu.edu
John Peterson
Associate Professor
Associate Director of the School of Music
peter2jr@jmu.edu
David Newman
Instructor
newmanda@jmu.edu
Dominic Baldoni
Aural Skills Instructor
baldondj@jmu.edu
Jeremiah Padilla
Aural Skills Instructor
padilljq@jmu.edu
Linlin Uta
Aural Skills Instructor
huang3xx@jmu.edu