Elizabeth Gould

Biography

Professor Emerita Elizabeth Gould joined the Faculty of Music in 2005. She teaches philosophically based courses in music and music education, and serves as liaison to the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. Previously, she served on the music faculties of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Boise State University. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in the context of feminisms and queer theory. In addition to serving as lead editor for the book, Exploring Social Justice: How Music Education Might Matter (2009), Gould has contributed chapters to Musicking Deleuze: Methodological Experiments in Music and Sound Studies (forthcoming); The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education (2015); Education and the Politics of Becoming (2014); and Critical Perspectives in Canadian Music Education (2012). She has also published articles in several journals, including Philosophy of Music Education Review; Music Education Research; Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education; Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture; College Music Symposium; Educational Philosophy and Theory; Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education; and the Brazilian journal, labrys: études féministes estudos feministas. A featured curator for Queer Americana (2011) on in media res: a media commons project, Gould has served in leadership roles with the International Society for Philosophy of Music Education and Gender Research in Music Education-International, and organized the conferences, musica ficta: A Conference on Engagements and Exclusions in Music, Education, and the Arts (2008); and Feminist Theory and Music 6: Confluence and Divide (2001). Currently, she is finishing the book project, Queer Subjectivities: Music and Lives Worth Living.