Hanisha Kulothparan

Hanisha Kulothparan

After MSU: Ph.D. student in music theory, Eastman School of Music

In the music theory Master's program at MSU: 2019 to 2021

Before MSU: Wilfrid Laurier University, Bachelor in Music Theory and History (2015-2019) 

Publications

Kulothparan, Hanisha. Forthcoming. “Storytelling and Meter in clipping.’s ‘story 2’.” In Modelling Musical Analysis, edited by Kim Loeffert and John Peterson. *Full book manuscript is estimated to be published in 2024.

Gatdula, Anna Beatrice, Clifton Boyd, Heyonjin Park, Carlo Aguilar González, Sinem Eylem Arslan, Hanisha Kulothparan, Gerardo (Gerry) Lopez, Brian Veasna Sengdala and Renata Yazzie. 2022. “Working Collectively: Thoughts toward a Better Music Studies from the Project Spectrum Graduate Student Committee.” American Music 40 (4): 444-452.

Conference Presentations:

“The Hero’s Introduction: Topic and Intercultural Trope in Kollywood Film Music”

  • Music Theory Southeast/South Central Society for Music Theory Joint Conference, Nashville, TN (2024)
  • Music Theory Society for New York State, Ithaca, NY (2024)

“’The importance of body language’: Musical Topics and Queerness in Disney’s The Little Mermaid

  • The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, Baltimore, MD (2023)
  • Music Theory Society of New York State, New York City, NY (2023)
  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Minneapolis, MN (2023)

“Centering Meter, Provincializing the West: Towards a Diversified and Inclusive Music Theory Curriculum”

  • Texas Society of Music Theory, Denton, TX (2022)
  • South Central Society for Music Theory, Virtual (2022)
  • Pedagogy into Practice, East Lansing, MI (2022)
  • Society for Music Theory, New Orleans, LA (2022)

"Flow in the Alter Egos of Nicki Minaj"

  • Florida State University Music Theory Forum (2021)
  • McGill Graduate Student Symposium (2021)
  • Music Theory Southeasst (2021)
  • Winner, Irna Priore Prize for Best Student Paper (2021)
  • Society for Music Theory Poster Session (2021)

"Webern's Influence on Barbara Pentland's Symphony for Ten Parts"

  • South Central Society for Music Theory (2021)

"Metric Stability and Instability in Maurice Ravel's Piano Music."

  • University of Arizona Graduate Student Music Conference (Tucson, 2020)
  • McGill Graduate Music Symposium (Montreal, 2020)
  • Midwest Graduate Music Symposium (2020)

Awards

2022 TSMT Colvin Award for Best Student Paper
2021 MTSE Irna Priore Prize for Best Student Paper

Guest Lectures

  • University of Knoxville-Tennessee (2024)
  •  Indiana University (2022)
  • Skidmore College (2022)
  • Northeastern University (2021)
  • Queens University (2021)

Workshop Participation:

"Prokofiev in Context: Views from East and West" with Inessa Bazayev, Music Theory Southeast Graduate Student Workshop (Virtual, 2021)

"Music and the Musicalized Moving Image" with Anna Gawboy, Society for Music Theory Graduate Student Workshop (Virtual, 2020) 

"Why Can't We Have Passing Tones (and Other Familiar 'Tonal' Categories) in Atonal Music?" with Michael Buchler, University of Arizona Graduate Student Music Conference (Tucson, AZ, 2019)

"Twentieth-Century Music in Analysis and Performance: Contexts and Experiments," with Daphne Leong, Society for Music Theory National Conference (Columbus, OH, 2019)

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