HUMANIZING LEADERSHIP
Teaching Philosophy
My teaching philosophy is based on exploring cross-cultural connection and using various teaching approaches to connect with a diverse student body. I consider the dynamics of a classroom similar to those of an orchestra, in which I am guiding the students to perform at their best and to collaborate with their peers.
My teaching goals are to encourage students’ intellectual development and to prepare them to be leaders for a diverse and global society. I articulate contents and activities so that I create a community of active learners who are eager to engage in critical thinking. I see critical thinking as the tool that expands what is understood, thought, and imagined.
I work to foster an atmosphere of intellectual trust and analytical seriousness that strengthens students’ self-confidence through supporting their abilities to investigate complex material. To that end, I employ theoretical texts as well as practical analysis of cultural productions. Students gain familiarity with the social issues behind music and other forms of artistic expression while keeping in mind the material ramifications of theoretical positions. Students’ ability to read and engage with social issues provides valuable self-reflection moments, while developing writing and communication skills, no matter what career path they will follow.
Academic Appointments
Lecturer of Latin American Cultural Studies
Georgia State University - World Cultures. 2019 - present
Lecturer of Orchestral Studies
Georgia Tech – School of Music 2023 - present
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
University of North Georgia 2015 – 2019
Lecturer
University at Buffalo. 2009 – 2015
Lecturer
Kansas State University - Music Depart. 2003 – 2005
Professor of Music
Jesus and Mary Academy - Bs.As., Argentina. 1995-2002
Education
Ph.D. Cultural Studies: Latin American Sound Studies
University at Buffalo.
M.M., Orchestral Conducting
Kansas State University.
POSTDOC Operatic Repertoire
Accademia Chigiana di Siena.
POSTDOC Orchestral Conducting
Florence Symphonietta, Florence.
POSTDOC Operatic Repertoire
Colon Theatre, Buenos Aires.
DMA. Orchestral & Choral Conducting
Argentine Catholic University.
Masters in Education
Argentine Catholic University.
Publications
“The Audio-nauts of the Sono-route: Nicaraguan Soundscapes in Cortázar’s ‘Apocalipsis de Solentiname.’” Revista Transcultural de Música, Sociedad de Musicología España (August 2021)
https://www.sibetrans.com/trans/autor?autor=Andrea+P%C3%A9rez+Mukdsi+%28Georgia+State+University%29
https://www.sibetrans.com/trans/public/docs/5d-final-trans-2020.pdf
"Clarice Lispector’s Writing by Ear & Brazil’s Aural Novel”
Chasqui Latin American Journal 49.1 (May 2020)
“Feminine Latin-American Soundscapes: Sound Dialectics and Transdiscursive Gender Identity.” Submitted for revision to Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos
“‘I know I will hear what heard before:’ The Role of Music in Narrative Progression.” Rupkatha: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 10.2 (2018): 189-202
https://rupkatha.com/v10n217a/
“A Rose is a Rose is a Melody: Mapping Julio Cortázar’s Jazz Narratives.” Logos & Littera: Journal of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text 4.2 (2017): 115-130.
“Multiple-Focus Narrative: An Abarcative Reading of Rayuela.”
In preparation for submission to Narrative, Journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative.
“Cortázar’s Discourse and its Edges in Contrapuntal Narrative.”
University at Buffalo Literary Studies Journal (2014): 1-18.
Conference Participation
“Latin American Women in the Music of XXI Century” July 10-12, 2023
Participant, Keynote Speaker.
“Gender in ancestral forms of singing, indigenous populations of Northwest Argentina”
Moderator, Roundtable.
“Research & inclusivity challenges by Latin American women composers of academic music.”
Moderator, Roundtable
Latin American Women Sonorities Symposium
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State (Unirio). Villa-Lobos Institute. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Sounding Protest in 21st-Century Latin America” Nov 2022
Participant, Round table
American Musicological Society National Convention. New Orleans, LO
“Panorama de mujeres compositoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI” Nov 2021
Participant, Round table
Festival Latinoamericano de Música Contemporánea Caracas, VE (on-line)
“The Sounds of Otherness in Latin American Narrative “ April 8-11, 2021
Participant, seminar
American Comparative Literature Association Convention. Washington DC.
“‘Brown and Blue:’ Piazzolla and de-colonial dialogues of jazz” Oct-Nov 2019
Participant, Ibero-American Music seminar
American Musicological Society Convention Boston, MA
“Miranda’s La Borinqueña and Feminine Afro-futurism in the Caribbean” Nov 17-16, 2018
Participant, round table
“Women and Consumption in Afro-Taino Narratives”
Organizer, round table
Midwest Modern Language Association Kansas City, MO
“Fantastic Lineage: Spectrality & Performance by Cuban Women Artists” Nov 9, 2018
Participant, round table
National Women’s Studies Association Convention Atlanta, GA
“Beyond Latin America, beyond improvisation: Jazz and exile in Julio Cortázar” July 6-9, 2017
Participant, seminar
American Comparative Literature Association Convention Utrecht, The Netherlands
“Mapping the Feminine Fantastic in Hispanophone Literature” January 5-8, 2017
Organizer, round table
Modern Language Association Convention Philadelphia, PA
“Navigating Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Boundaries: Music in Literature”. January 5-8, 2017
Participant, round table
Modern Language Association Convention Philadelphia, PA
“Eight Singers in Search of a Voice: The Rhetoric of Musical Reference” March 27-29, 2014
Participant, round table
International Conference on Narrative MIT, Massachusetts
“‘I know I will hear what I heard before:’ The Role of Music in Narrative Progression” June 27-29, 2013
Participant, round table
International Conference on Narrative, University of Manchester Manchester, England
“Silencios De otros lados: clave para una lectura musical de Rayuela” April 19-21, 2012
Kentucky Conference
University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky
“Metamorphosic Identity in Silvina Ocampo's works” March 15-18, 2011
Participant, roundtable
St. John Fisher College Rochester, New York
“‘Clone:’ Interdiscursividad y lectura cómplice en la narrativa cortazariana.” May 7-9, 2010
Cincinnati Conference
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
“The Materiality of Sound in Alejandra Pizarnik and Amelia Rosselli” April 2-3, 2010
IV Conference on Gender Across Borders
State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
“18th Century Ambiguity through the Reading of Bach and Cortázar” April 16-18, 2009
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
University of Kentucky Lexington, KY
“Interdiscursivity through the Reading of Bach in Cortázar” Oct. Nov. 2, 2008
Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
“Recurrence of Gestures in Non-Tonal Music Processing” May 11-13, 2007
International Conference in Music as Cognitive System
University of Cambridge Cambridge, England