The Department of Music Fall Musicology Colloquia will begin on Friday, Sept.9 at 4pm in the Harkness Chapel Classroom with “The Rock Hall Induction Process: Populism, Canons, and the Challenge to Expertise” presented by Dr. Lauren Onkey.
Lauren Onkey is Vice President of Education and Public Programs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. She taught in the English department at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana for fourteen years. While at Ball State, she taught courses in postcolonial literature, cultural studies and writing at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and was the recipient of research fellowships at Oxford University and Boston College. She also served for five years as Director of Graduate Programs in English. She is currently appointed as a Presidential Fellow and teaches in the SAGES general education program at Case Western Reserve University, as well as rock history classes at Cleveland State University. In addition to teaching rock history, Lauren has taught units on popular music in cultural studies, literature, and women’s studies classes throughout her career. She has published Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers (Routledge 2009) and many essays and book chapters. She has also presented numerous papers at national and international literature, popular music studies, cultural studies, and pedagogy conferences.
The colloquium is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
