 I am currently an Assistant Professor of Music Cognition/Education at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. This website summarizes my teaching and research and interests, teaching evaluations and syllabi from recent courses, and pdfs of my publications as well as manuscripts currently under review. If you are currently a student at McMaster interested in working in my lab, please visit this page for an application.
My research interests include sensory integration, auditory learning and memory, timbre perception, the communication of affect in language and music, and general questions surrounding music perception and cognition. I am currently involved in research collaborations with Michael Kubovy, Jeanine Stefannuci (College of William and Mary), and music cognition expert David Huron (Ohio State University). Much of my current recent centers around the role of visual information in music perception, sample stimuli of which can be seen here. One of my more creative teaching experiences involved designing and teaching a 400-level senior seminar on the Psychology of Music, offered through the Department of Psychology at UVA during the summer of 2008. A description of this class along with evaluations and a sample reading list/syllabus is available here. Additional teaching experience includes several years serving as an adjunct faculty member Longwood University, where I have taught courses on World Music and the Science of Music, and occasionally supervise senior projects and honors theses. Please feel free to contact me for more information or questions about my research and/or teaching, or visit my website dedicated to my musical activities: www.michaelschutz.net. |