Robert Alford
2016
Dissertation: “’To Know the Words to the Music’: Spatial Circulation, Queer Discourse and the Musical”
Assistant Director, Donor Relations at UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture
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Robert Alford’s dissertation, “’To Know the Words to the Music’: Spatial Circulation, Queer Discourse and the Musical,” historicizes the relationship between homosexuals and musicals, and theorizes how popular song enabled forms of spatial and linguistic mobility that allowed queers to pass as normative subjects. His interests beyond film theory and history include queer theory, new media theory, theories of sound and the voice, sociolinguistics, ethnomusicology and phenomenology. Robert has published in Screen and Qui Parle, and has an article forthcoming in Cultural Critique.