Marcus P. Adams<\/b>\u00a0is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany and former associate editor of the journal\u00a0Hobbes Studies<\/i>. His research focuses on perception and natural philosophy in early modern philosophy, in particular on these areas in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Margaret\u00a0Cavendish. He has recently edited\u00a0A Companion to Hobbes\u00a0<\/i>(Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), and his recent papers have appeared in journals such as\u00a0British Journal for the History of Philosophy<\/i>,\u00a0History of Philosophy Quarterly<\/i>, and\u00a0Philosophers\u2019 Imprint<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Colin A. Anderson<\/b> is the George and Arlene Foote Chair in Ethics and Values and Professor of Philosophy at Hiram College in Ohio, where he also serves as the coordinator of liberal education. He received a Ph.D. from Loyola University of Chicago and his B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John\u2019s College in Annapolis, MD.<\/span><\/p>\n Amanda M. Brian<\/b> is Associate Professor of History at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. Brian has published several articles on the history of visual culture, often as it pertains to modern German children, in such venues as the Journal of Popular Culture<\/i>, German Studies Review<\/i>, and Central European History<\/i>. Her current research project involves the visual culture surrounding children\u2019s health and hygiene in nineteenth-century Germany. At CCU, she teaches much and broadly in world history and modern European history, and remains grateful for supportive colleagues in her department and college.<\/p>\n Lindsay A. Fleming<\/b>\u00a0is a research assistant in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Her research interests lie in the perceptual, cognitive, and affective processes that evoke emotions, judgments, preferences, movement, and memory in response to music and art.<\/p>\n Megan\u00a0Grumbling<\/b>\u00a0is a poet who often collaborates on environmental themes with\u00a0musicians, composers, sound and installation artists,\u00a0and filmmakers. She\u00a0is librettist of the 2016 opera\u00a0Persephone in the Late Anthropocene<\/i>, a co-creation with composer Denis Nye and has collaborated on several environmental compositions with the composer Marianna Filippi. She is the author of the poetry volumes\u00a0Persephone in the Late Anthropocene\u00a0<\/i>(Acre Books, 2020), an expansion of her libretto,\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Booker\u2019s Point\u00a0<\/i>(UNT, 2016). Her awards include the Poetry Foundation\u2019s Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Vassar Miller Prize, the Robert Frost Foundation Award, and the Maine Book Award for Poetry. She\u00a0<\/i>teaches environmental literature and nature writing at the University of New England, and lives in Portland, Maine.<\/p>\n Hao\u00a0Huang\u00a0<\/b>is the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College. He was the 2012-13 American Council on Education Fellow-in-Residence at Queens College CUNY and served as a United States Information Agency Artistic Ambassador on several overseas tours to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has published\u00a0articles in refereed journals in Great Britain, Hungary, Greece, Japan, Russia, China and the USA. His performances and scholarly work have been recognized by The Chronicle of Higher Education,<\/i> the Washington Post, <\/i>and National Public Radio\u2019s Morning Edition. <\/i><\/p>\n Daniel J. Levitin<\/b>\u00a0is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at Minerva University in San Francisco, and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University in Montreal. His research encompasses music, the brain, health, productivity, and creativity. He is the author of\u00a0This Is Your Brain on Music, The World in Six Songs, The Organized Mind, A Field Guide to Lies,<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Successful Aging<\/i>.<\/p>\n Christian Morgner<\/b> is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He previously served as Lecturer at University of Leicester and Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge. His research centers on the role of meaning-making in various artistic contexts, such as arts festivals, creative cities, networks, and works of art. Most recently, Oxford University Press issued his book The Making of Meaning: From the Individual to Social Order<\/i> (2022).<\/p>\n Nicholas P. Quigley<\/b> (they\/he) teaches music and music technology at Resiliency Preparatory Academy and B.M.C. Durfee High School of Fall River, MA. An active composer, producer, and guitarist, Quigley has released multiple records of classical chamber music, alternative songs, soundscapes, ambient guitar works, and electronica. Their research on DIY musicking and pedagogies centering on expressive arts integrations and trauma-informed teaching have appeared in the Journal of Popular Music Education<\/i>, Massachusetts Music Educators Journal<\/i>, and Teaching Music<\/i>, respectively.<\/p>\n C.L. Quinan<\/b> is Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. Working at the intersection of trans studies and queer theory, their research examines how anxieties around race and nationality come to be displaced onto queer, trans and gender diverse minority subjects. They are the author of the monograph Hybrid Anxieties: Queering the French-Algerian War and its Postcolonial Legacies<\/i>\u00a0(2020) and co-editor of the volume Homonationalism, Femonationalism, Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contexualised<\/i>\u00a0(2021).<\/p>\n Tawnya Smith<\/b> is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Boston University, where she teaches graduate courses in research, curriculum, arts integration, and undergraduate courses in healthy classroom dynamics, and arts and the environment. Her research focus includes arts integration, trauma and mental health, and ecojustice education. She has published widely in the fields of music education, and her work has appeared in numerous collections such as The Oxford Handbook of Musical Performance Resilience in Music Education. <\/i>She is co-author of Performance Anxiety Strategies<\/i>, <\/i>co-editor of Narratives and Reflections in Music Education: Listening to Voices Seldom Heard, <\/i>and Senior Editor of the International Journal of Education & the Arts.<\/i><\/p>\n Adam Sweeting <\/b>is Associate Professor of Humanities in the College of General Studies at Boston University, where he also leads interdisciplinary seminars on environmental topics at BU\u2019s Kilachand Honors College. He is the author of Reading Houses<\/i> and Building Books<\/i> and Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summer<\/i>. 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