Gayle Sherwood Magee

Assistant Professor of Musicology

B.M., McMaster University; Ph.D., Yale University.

Gayle Sherwood Magee's scholarship and teaching focuses on contemporary music, film music, and American music of the past three centuries. Her most recent book, Charles Ives Reconsidered, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2008. A second edition of Charles Ives: A Guide to Research (Routledge) will appear in 2009.

Magee’s current scholarly activities include a projected book on music in the films of Robert Altman. Her article “Song, Genre, and Transatlantic Dialogue in Gosford Park” was published in the Journal of the Society for American Music, and she presented her research on the film Nashville (1975) at the American Musicological Society’s national meeting in November 2008. Other articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th Century Music, and Musical Quarterly.

Magee’s research has been cited by the Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and the New Yorker. She is a member of the Charles Ives Society Board of Directors and has served on the Board of the Society for American Music. Professor Magee's work has been supported by grants from the American Musicological Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, Sinfonia Foundation for Research in American Music, Whiting Foundation, and Mellon Foundation.