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Natalie Farrell is a PhD candidate in Music History/Theory at the University of Chicago. She has been published in Music and Letters, The Journal of Popular Music Studies, The Journal of Sound and Music in Games, The Palgrave Handbook of Scoring Peak TV: Music and Sound in Television’s New “Golden Age,” and The Flutist Quarterly. Her research on neoliberal philanthropy and musicians’ unions in Chicago has been funded by grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Eastman School of Music's Paul R. Judy Center for Innovation and Research. She is particularly passionate about trauma-informed pedagogy and has served as a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning.

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