College of Fine Arts
Melanie R. Kuhn, Visiting Associate Professor
Development Studies And Counseling
Melanie R. Kuhn is a visiting associate professor at Boston University (January, 2008). She began her teaching career in the Boston Public Schools, has worked as a literacy coordinator for an adult education program, spent three years as a clinician at an International School in England, worked as a research assistant at Manchester University and was associate professor at Rutgers Graduate School of Education. She received her Ed. M. in Reading and Language at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, her M.Phil. in the Psychological Investigation of Intellectual Development at Cambridge University, and her Ph.D. in Reading Education from the University of Georgia, where she worked with the National Reading Research Center (NRRC). She was Principal Investigator on a grant looking at the effectiveness of RFB&D’s Learning Through Listening Program ® and Co-PI on the IERI/NICHD grant exploring the development of fluent reading with second graders. Her research report “Fluency: A Review of Developmental and Remedial Practices” with Steven Stahl was recently reprinted in Theoretical Models and Processes. She has authored or co-authored numerous other articles and chapters and currently teaches courses on assessing and correcting reading difficulties. Her research interests also include literacy instruction for struggling readers, comprehension development, instructional technology, and vocabulary instruction.
Richard
R. Bunbury, Assistant Professor
School Of Music
Richard R. Bunbury holds degrees in from Boston College, the New England Conservatory, and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught in elementary and secondary schools, and UMass, Amherst, Simmons College, Bunker Hill Community College, and The Boston Conservatory. He has served on the boards of several professional organizations and is active as a lecturer, choral conductor, harpsichordist, organist, and singer. His articles have appeared in various journals and in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and is a contributor to a forthcoming book, Sacred Christmas Music. His research interests primarily lie in historical teaching methods.
Joshua Fineberg, Associate Professor
School Of Music
Joshua Fineberg (D.M.A. in composition, Columbia University, B.M., Peabody Conservatory) has previously taught at Harvard University (as the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities) and at Columbia University. Previous to that, he worked in France as a composer, pedagogue, scientific collaborator at IRCAM and artistic director for recordings. Compositions through 2004 are published by Editions Max Eschig, and since 2005 with Gérard Billaudot Editeur: They are widely performed in the United States and Europe. Besides his compositional and pedagogical activities, he actively collaborates with computer scientists and music psychologists to help develop tools for computer assisted composition, electronic sound manipulation and in music perception research. Also, he has been deeply involved in working with performing ensembles as Artistic Director for recordings of many European ensembles and soloists, and as a former director of Speculum Musicae. He is currently the co-Artistic director of the Columbia Sinfonietta in New York. Additionally, Fineberg was issue editor for two issues of The Contemporary Music Review dedicated to 'Spectral Music,' Vol. 19 parts 2 and 3 and co-Editor for a double issue featuring the collected essays of Tristan Murail. Since 2004, Fineberg has been the US Editor of The Contemporary Music Review. Fineberg’s book Classical Music, Why Bother? Hearing the World of Contemporary Culture through a Composer’s Ears was published by Routledge in June 2006.
Current projects include an evening length work based on Nabakov's "Lolita" in collaboration with Belgian Choreographer Johanne Saunier, stage designer and director Jim Clayburgh and video artist Kurt d'Haeseleer , the GMEM of Marseilles and IRCAM. (The first part of which was premiered in May 2006 in New York; the staged premiere of the full piece is scheduled for Marseilles on April 17, 2008.) A CD of his chamber music was released in August 2002 by Universal Music/Collection Una Corda. A new CD is is nearly completed and will appear in early 2007 along with an accompanying book on Fineberg's music as part of Mode Records' InActuel collection.
