LYNDA A.H. PAUL [email protected]

EDUCATION

Degrees Yale School of Drama M.F.A. Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism 2017 Yale University Ph.D. Music (distinction) 2012 University of Chicago M.A. Humanities (thesis award-winner) 2005 University of Rochester B.A. English (high distinction; magna cum laude, honors) 2004 Eastman School of Music B.M. Musical Arts (distinction); World Music certificate 2004

TEACHING, YALE UNIVERSITY 2008-2018

Mellon Postdoctoral Associate in the Integrated Humanities Disney and Society ENGL 114 (taught 3x—Yale College and YSS) Alternate Realities AMST 331/FILM 428/MUSI 330/THST 330 Cabaret GMST 194/LITR 243/MUSI 363/THST 351 The Ballets Russes and Inter-Artistic Collaboration LITR 276/MUSI 230/RUSS 270/THST 232 Richard III (with Joseph Roach) THST 433

Lecturer Reading and Writing the Modern Essay ENGL 120 Introduction to Dramaturgy THST 207

Part-Time Acting Instructor Introduction to the Elements of Music MUSI 110

Teaching Fellow Theater History THST 110 Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances ENGL 200 Music History MUSI 352 Music Cognition (WR) CGSC 343/MUSI 343 Form in Pop/Rock Music (WR) MUSI 275 Topics in World Music MUSI 353 Listening to Music MUSI 112

General Advising and Mentorship 2009-2018 First-Year College Advisor, Pauli Murray College, Yale University Mellon Forum Consultant, Pauli Murray College, Yale University Sophomore Advisor, Yale University Hosted/mentored English graduate student for pedagogy training (in English 114 class) Peer Mentor, Yale University Music Department

Writing Advising and Mentorship 2010-2018 Residential College Writing Tutor, Pauli Murray College, Yale University Leader, Workshop Series for graduate student TFs of Writing-Intensive (WR) courses at Yale Leader, Workshop Series on writing papers for international undergraduate students at Yale Writing Partner, Yale College Writing Center/Center for Teaching and Learning Writing Advisor , Yale Graduate Writing Center/Center for Teaching and Learning Writing Tutor, Warrior-Scholar Project (held at Yale) ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICE 2005-2018 Supervising Mentor, Yale College Writing Center, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning College Fellow, Pauli Murray College, Yale University Judge and Committee Member, Yale College Writing Center Essay Contest (2015-2016, 2016-2017) Organizer, Public Speaking Tutoring, Yale College Writing Center Co-Founder/Convener, Yale University Sound Studies Colloquium Series Co-Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology, Sound Studies Special Interest Group Co-Convener, Yale University Performance Studies Working Group House Manager/Tours Coordinator, New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Adjunct member, search committee, postdoc position in Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale Recordings Researcher and Editor, Yale University, Open Yale Courses (for Music 112) Graduate Student Liaison, Women’s Faculty Forum at Yale Co-Founder, Yale University, Graduate Music Symposium Conference Coordinator, Yale University, Yale Baroque Opera Project Special Events Coordinator, Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music Music Librarian, Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music

EDITORIAL 2005-2018 Managing Editor, Yale School of Drama, Theater Magazine Scripts Reviewer, Theatre For A New Audience Scripts Reviewer, Yale Repertory Theatre Editorial Assistant (Dramaturgy in Motion, Katherine Profeta) Editor/Publishing Assistant (Listening to Music, Craig Wright) Co-Curator of exhibit, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (“The Very Picture of Transgression: Visions of Pirates Since 1650”)

GRANTS Yale Theater Studies Course Enhancement Grant (for taking undergraduates in my course 2018 on dramaturgy to see a production at the Yale Repertory Theatre) Yale Theater Studies Production Support Grant (additional support secured for my production 2017 of The Silent Lyre, the inaugural production of Pauli Murray’s Lighten Theater) Yale Dean’s Fund for starting Yale Sound Studies Colloquium Series 2013 Yale College Dean’s Office Field Trip Grant (for taking undergraduates in my course 2012 on Disney to New York City to see The Lion King on Broadway) American Musicological Society Travel Award (for presentation at national AMS conference) 2011 Cambridge Center for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP)/ 2011 Music & Letters Trust Student Bursary (for presentation at CMPCP conference)

Yale Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Fund (for CMPCP conference) 2011 Yale Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Fund (for presentation at national 2010 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference) Yale Southeast Asia Studies Council Travel Research Grant (for music studies on Bali) 2007

University of Chicago, Century Fellowship (declined) 2006

Catherine T. Ham Memorial Award (for excellence in master’s thesis) 2005 University of Chicago Travel Grant (for master’s thesis research) 2005 Karla Scherer Foundation Scholarship (for study at University of Chicago) 2004

PUBLICATIONS

Articles “Circus Music.” Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. London: Bloomsbury Press. Forthcoming. “‘Just Pure Sound and Vision’: Rawness as Aesthetic-Ideological Fulcrum in Sublime Frequencies’ Videos.” In Punk Ethnography: Artists and Scholars Listen to Sublime Frequencies, edited by Michael Veal and E. Tammy Kim, 107-134. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2016. “Making of “Raja Edepus” [Review]. Asian Music 42, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2011): 141-145. Contributor, Craig Wright, Listening to Music, 6th edition. Boston: Schirmer Cengage Learning, 2011.

Theatre Development Fund’s Stages Magazine Features “Wait, Let Me Process That Again.” August 24, 2016. “You See Their Apartment, But What Are You Missing?” May 25, 2016. “Who Could Force You to Hurt a Student?” February 10, 2016. “If You’re a Dog, Can You Ever Stop Wanting to Hunt?” February 3, 2016.

Yale School of Drama Alumni Magazine Profiles Rick Elice, 2017-2018. Sharon Washington, 2016-2017.

PRESENTATIONS 2009-2013

Research “The Performance of Virtual Tourism in Las Vegas and the Disney Theme Parks” • Performance Studies Network, International Meeting, Cambridge, UK “Las Vegas and Virtual Tourism: Sonic Shaping of Simulated Worlds” • Joint National Meeting for Society for Ethnomusicology, American Musicological Society, and Society for Music Theory, New Orleans, LA • Yale Performance Studies Working Group, New Haven, CT “Las Vegas, Cirque du Soleil, and Live-Virtual Soundscapes” (invited) • Computer-Human Interactive Performance Symposium, University College London, London, UK “Liveness Reconsidered: Sound and Concealment in Cirque du Soleil” • American Musicological Society, National Meeting, San Francisco, CA • Society for Ethnomusicology, National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA “Performing Perfection: Musical Process in Cirque du Soleil’s Las Vegas Shows” • Performance Studies Network, International Meeting, Cambridge, UK “Immediately Mediated: Musical ‘Liveness’ in Cirque du Soleil” • Stony Brook University, Graduate Student Symposium, Stony Brook, NY “Rawness as Signifier of Authenticity and Immediacy: Aesthetics and Ideologies in Sublime Frequencies’ Video Output” • Society for Ethnomusicology, National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA “Spectacle Transformed: Sound, Cinematics and Narrative Cohesion in Cirque du Soleil” • Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, National Meeting, St. Louis, MO

Writing Pedagogy “Do Peer Tutors Need Authority in the Discipline?: A Survey of Tutors and Clients” (co-led) • Conference on the Teaching of Writing, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

“Writing Seminar Papers in the Humanities” (co-led) • Graduate Writing Center Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT “Teaching Writing” • Graduate Teaching Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

Academic Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory: “Voice, Representation, Ideology”

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Master Class: “Working with Alternative Media: Documenting Counter-Culture” Master Class: “Early Modern Palaeography”

Middlebury College Summer Language Schools Deutsche Schule: German language, literature, and culture

Performing Arts British American Drama Academy (BADA): “Midsummer in Oxford” Shakespeare and Brecht; Acting/Voice/Movement

Yale Summer Session: “A Practical Approach to Directing I” Directing/Rehearsal Techniques; Design; Stage Management; Dramaturgy; Acting

Village Harmony Corsican sacred music and folk music; Georgian music; South African music; Sacred Harp

Çudamani Summer Institute Balinese gamelan, dance, and culture

LANGUAGES Working Knowledge: French, German, Portuguese, Italian

SELECT REFERENCES

Alfred E. Guy Jr. R.W.B. Lewis Director, Yale College Writing Center [email protected]

Catherine Nicholson Associate Professor of English [email protected]

Daniel Harrison Allen Forte Professor of Music Theory [email protected]

Joseph Roach Sterling Professor of Theater and English, Chair of Theater Studies Advisory Committee, Director of Theater [email protected]

Marc Robinson Professor of English and Theater Studies Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama [email protected]

Catherine Sheehy Chair of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama Professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Resident Dramaturg, Yale Repertory Theatre [email protected]