Ryan Ebright, musicologist
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Instructor of Record, College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University.
   Music History III: Undergraduate (UG) music major survey of 20th-/21st-century music. (Fall 2018 projects: NMF Composer Profile Podcasts)
   Multidisciplinary Seminar–Culture: DMA seminar on post-1945 music cultures, theories, and aesthetics.
   Contemporary Music Literature and Styles.
   DMA Dissertation Research/Writing Workshop.
   DMA Colloquium.
   Seminars:
      American Opera after Einstein. Mixed graduate/UG seminar. (Fall 2015 course project: MicroOperas History)
      Minimalism: Theory, Culture, Praxis. Mixed graduate/UG seminar.
​      Music and Video Games.
   Music Appreciation: 90–120 student undergraduate (UG) non-major lecture course.
   Chamber Music Literature: UG and graduate level lecture-seminar.
   Symphonic Literature: UG and graduate level lecture-seminar. 
   Survey of Music History II: Graduate review music history survey, 1750–present.
   Independent Studies: Women in Contemporary Opera (Fall 2017); Texture and Technique (Fall 2017); Harry Partch (Fall 2018); Orchestra as Institution (Spring 2019).
 
Instructor of Record, Department of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
   The Art of Song in Western Culture: UG lecture-seminar.
   Music in Film: UG non-major lecture-seminar.
   Fall 2014–Spring 2015: Private studio in applied voice.
 
Instructor of Record, Department of Music, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
   Introduction to Music and Culture: Major/non-major UG world music course.
   Music for Film: 90-student UG non-major lecture course.
 
Instructor of Record, Department of Music, Wake Technical Community College.
   Music Appreciation: Two online and two seated UG courses.
 
Assistant Director of Collegium Musicum Vocal Ensemble, UNC-Chapel Hill.
   Fall 2011–Spring 2012: Led small ensemble of undergraduate singers in varied repertoire.

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​Thesis Advisor, College of Musical Arts, BGSU.
   Patricia Schuelke, “Nostalgia, Race, and the Music of Cuphead,” MM Thesis, 2022.
   
Rachel Evans, “The Social Politics of Nico Muhly’s Marnie,” MM Thesis, 2020.
   
Alexis Scangas, “Forget the Familiar: The Feminist Voice in Contemporary Dramatic Song,” MM Thesis, 2018.

​Thesis & Dissertation Committee Member, College of Musical Arts, BGSU.
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Guest Lecturer
   
University of Michigan
      Spring 2021, Sp22: History of Opera. Lecture on Anthony Davis’s opera X
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University of Colorado at Boulder.
      
Fall 2020: History of Opera. Lecture on Anthony Davis’s opera X.
   College of Musical Arts, BGSU.
      Spring 2022: Turning Points. Lecture on early 20th-cent. modernism & theatricality.
      Spring 2016, Spring 2017: Turning Points. Lecture on John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls.
      Spring 2017: DMA Colloquium. Lecture on “The Artistry of Research.”

Guest Discussant, School of Media and Communication, BGSU.
   
Spring 2018: Critical Media Analysis. Graduate seminar session on political economy.

Service

Academic Service:
CMA (College of Musical Arts) Representative, BG Perspectives (gen.ed.) Committee, BGSU. 2018–2019.

MACCM Advisory Committee, CMA, BGSU. Fall 2018–present.

Scholarship and Honors Committee, CMA, BGSU. Fall 2018–present.
 
Faculty Advisor to Praecepta (student new music organization), CMA, BGSU. Fall 2017–present.
 
DMA Advisory Committee, CMA, BGSU. Fall 2017–present.
 
Secretary, Committee on Undergraduate Curricula and Instruction, CMA, BGSU. Fall 2017–Spring 2018.
                                    
CMA Dean’s Representative, Undergraduate Council, BGSU. Fall 2017–Spring 2018.

Committee member, Merit Committee, MuCT department. Fall 2017–present.

Library Advisory Committee, BGSU. Fall 2016–Spring 2017.
 
Secretary, MuCT departmental meetings. Fall 2016–Spring 2017.
 
Committee member on MM and DMA comprehensive exams, CMA, BGSU. Spring 2016–present.
Professional Service:
Organizer, Eighth International Conference on Minimalist Music. BGSU, May 2022.

William F. Holmes/Frank D’Accone Dissertation Fellowship in Opera Studies Committee. American Musicological Society. Fall 2021–Fall 2023.

Editor, Bulletin of the Society for American Music. Publications Committee, Society for American Music (Fall 2019–Spring 2022).

Secretary, Society for
Minimalist Music. Sept. 2015–May 2022. 

Design and Layout Editor, Bulletin of the Society for American Music. Publications Committee, Society for American Music. July 2012–Feb. 2016.

Expert reviewer (music-related disciplines) for Richard Janaro and Thelma Altshuler, The Art of Being Human: The Humanities as a Technique for Living, 11th Edition. New York: Pearson, 2016.

Conference Co-organizer, South Central Graduate Student Consortium. Fall 2011–Fall 2013.
   Annual conference by the graduate music students of the University of Virginia, Duke University, and UNC-Chapel Hill.


Peer reviewer: Journal of the Society for American Music, ​University of Michigan Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford Bibliographies​. 

Panels Chaired:
"Women in Contemporary Opera," SAM Annual Meeting, New Orleans. March 2019.

​“Twenty-First Century Opera,” AMS National Meeting, San Antonio. November 2018.
 
Moderator, Composer Panel Discussion, New Music Festival, CMA, BGSU. October 2018.

Moderator, MicroOperas Composer/Director Panel Discussion, CMA, BGSU. January 2018.
 
“Minimalism on Stage & Screen,” Sixth International Conference on Minimalist Music, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. June 2017.
 
Moderator, MicroOperas Composer/Director Panel Discussion, CMA, BGSU. January 2017.
 
Moderator, “State of the Art,” Composer Panel Discussion, New Music Festival, CMA, BGSU. October 2016.
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