Directory Profiles
Reba Wissner, PhD
Interim Associate Dean & Interdisciplinary Studies
Honors College
Associate Professor of Musicology
Schwob School of Music
Accessibility, Education, Education - Higher Education, Education - Music Education, Education - Special Education, Film Production, Gender Studies, Music, Online Learning
Education and Certifications
Graduate Certificate, Instructional Design, University of Wisconsin - Stout, 2020
Graduate Certificate, Higher Education Administration, Northeastern University, 2019
PhD, Musicology, Brandeis University, 2012
MFA, Musicology, Brandeis University, 2008
BA, Music and Italian, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 2005
Biography
Dr. Reba Wissner is a film and television music historian and is coordinator of the
Public Musicology Certificate. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Italian
from Hunter College of the City University of New York, Master of Fine Arts and Doctor
of Philosophy in Musicology degrees from Brandeis University, a Graduate Certificate
in Higher Education Administration from Northeastern University, and a Graduate Certificate
in Instructional Design from the University of Wisconsin - Stout. She holds Levels
1, 2, and 3 Credentials in Universal Design for Learning from UDL-IRN and is a Quality
Matters Certified Peer Reviewer and Master Reviewer. She was the 2022 recipient of
Columbus State University’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award and named a
Governor’s Teaching Fellow at the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at the
University of Georgia in 2022.
In addition to book chapters and journal articles on film and television music, video
game music, music history pedagogy, seventeenth-century Venetian opera, and immigrant
musical theater, she is the author of several books: A Dimension of Sound: Music in
The Twilight Zone (Pendragon Press, 2013), We Will Control All That You Hear: The
Outer Limits and the Aural Imagination (Pendragon Press, 2016), Music and the Atomic
Bomb on American Television, 1950-1969 (Peter Lang, 2020), and David Lynch: Sonic
Style (Routledge, 2024). With Katherine Reed, she co-edited Music in Twin Peaks: Listen
to the Sounds (Routledge, 2021). She is also co-editing, with Katherine Reed and Kate
Galloway, Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media (under contract
with Routledge) and solo editing the Oxford Handbook of Public Musicology (under contract,
Oxford University Press). Her monograph, Universal Design for Learning in Music History
Classes: A Teacher’s Guide, is under contract with Routledge.
Academic Areas
Music history, Film Music, Television Music, Video Game Music, Opera Studies, Cold War, Nuclear Weapons, Music and Immigrant Theater, Universal Design for Learning, Pedagogy.
Research Interests
Articles, book chapters, and presentations on seventeenth century Venetian opera, television music, film music, video game music, immigrant musical theater, and pedagogy.
