Dr. Caitlan Truelove earned her PhD in Musicology at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) in 2023, completing her dissertation on the twenty-first century television musical series and how mental health, trauma, disability, and identity are represented via song.
Caitlan is the Adjunct Instructor of Music at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY. She also teaches private violin lessons at Dutchess Community College Academy of Music and is the Editorial Assistant for the Journal of the American Musicological Society. Previously, she was a part-time instructor at Syracuse University and Wichita State University teaching musical theatre and music and media courses.
Caitlan has presented her work on film and television music at the American and International Musicological Societies, the Society for American Music, Music and the Moving Image, and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, among others. As a teaching assistant at Syracuse University and CCM, she helped teach classes for both undergraduate and graduate students, music majors and non-music majors. Caitlan was the editor for Volume 34 of Music Research Forum, CCM’s graduate student journal and was elected Vice President of the CCM Graduate Student Association, which she served from 2019-2021.
Caitlan holds two bachelor’s degrees in Violin Performance and Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Music in Violin Performance from Syracuse University. Her research interests include film and television music, musical theatre, gender and music, and the use of pre-existing music in media.
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