Patricia Schmidt
BMus (Vanderbilt), PhD (Pennsylvania)
Lecturer in Music
After receiving a BMus from Vanderbilt University (1999), Patricia earned a doctorate in historical musicology from University of Pennsylvania (2005). Completed under the supervision of ethnomusicologist Dr. Carol Muller, her doctoral research, entitled Thinking Inside the Box: In Search of Music-Video Culture, examines the phenomenology of teenagers’ audio-viewing cultures in both the north- and south-eastern United States.
Her research interests include popular music, gender and reception studies, and she is currently working on questions of texture in audio-visual media. Further areas of research include the place of ethnomethodology in popular music studies and media cultures; the role of media consumption practice, memory, gender, and identity in personal uses of multimedia; and a developing interest in music in online gaming. She has presented at various international, national and regional conferences, including those held by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), and the American Musicological Society (AMS). Forthcoming publications include articles on music videos and music producers, and also the analysis of music video.
At Surrey, Patricia teaches undergraduate modules in world musics, ethnomusicology, written research and study skills. She also teaches on the new postgraduate route in Popular Music Studies, contributes to the undergraduate and postgraduate modules related to Screen Studies, and is co-supervising a PhD on feminist performance practice and electroacoustic music. Patricia is also the undergraduate admissions tutor for the 3- and 4-year BMus (Honours) Programmes. She is an avid classical pianist, and she lives in London with her partner and their dog and cat.
E-mail: p.schmidt@surrey.ac.uk
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