Anna Knapp
Anna Knapp is a Ph.D. student in Musicology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests deal broadly with affect, aesthetics, and ecocriticism particularly in music for film and television and in the nineteenth century. She is interested in the phenomenon that is the serialized television musical as well music and mountains. Knapp received a BM in Musicology with a minor in Russian Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. When not musicking she prefers to spend time in the woods admiring lichen or knitting on a cozy couch.
Hannah Standiford
Hannah Standiford is PhD student in Ethnomusicology. Her work focuses on a style of traditional Indonesian music called keroncong and the way it intersects with national identity and nostalgia. Her first exposure to this style of music was in 2014 when she spent a year living in Solo, Java with the support of a Darmasiswa scholarship. When she returned, Hannah created a keroncong group called Rumput in collaboration with Dr. Andrew McGraw, which performs internationally and collaborates with master artists from Java and Bali. In 2017, Hannah returned to Java to study this music more deeply with the support of a Critical Language Enhancement Award and a Fulbright Student Research Fellowship. She has presented her work at the 5th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on the Performing Arts of Southeast Asia 2018 and the Fulbright Student Enrichment Conference 2018 in Kuala Lumpur.