Ithaca College

The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to host Ithaca College Community Artists each Friday at 5pm. In a mere 15-20minutes, learn what our community brings to the Arts, and the invariable ways Art invigorates our lives.

March 19: Elizabeth Medina-Gray (Video Game Music) - bio below

March 26: Patricia Hunsinger (Lithography)

To attend this event, please email cschillinger@ithaca.edu to receive the Zoom link!

BIO: ELIZABETH MEDINA-GRAY

Dr. Elizabeth Medina-Gray is assistant professor of music theory in the School of Music at Ithaca College, where she teaches courses in music theory, aural skills, and (in Fall 2017 and Fall 2019) analysis of video game music. Dr. Medina-Gray received her Ph.D. in Music Theory from Yale University in 2014. In her dissertation and subsequent research, she has focused on developing novel analytical approaches to music and sound in video games. She has presented her work at national and international conferences, including national meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the American Musicological Society, and the North American Conference on Video Game Music (NACVGM). She serves on the program committee for NACVGM and on the executive committee for the international Society for the Study of Sound and Music in Games (SSSMG). She is an associate editor for the Journal of Sound and Music in Games, which is published quarterly by SSSMG and University of California Press, with the first issue published in January 2020. Her work appears in Music Theory Online (2019), Music in Video Games: Studying Play (Routledge 2014), Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music (Equinox Publishing 2016), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (Routledge 2017), and The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music(2021).