Johanna Devaney
Johanna Devaney
Associate Professor, Sonic Arts
Johanna Devaney's research seeks to understand how humans engage with music, primarily through performance, with a particular focus on the singing voice, and how computers can be used to model and augment our understanding of this engagement. Her work draws on the disciplines of music, psychology, and computer science and has been published in the Journal of New Music Research, Psychomusicology, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, and Ex Tempore as well as presented at numerous international and national conferences. She is currently the speciality chief editor for the Digital Musicology section of Frontiers in Digital Humanities.
Devaney previously taught in the Music Technology program at NYU Steinhardt and the Music Theory and Cognition program at Ohio State University. She completed her postdoc at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California at Berkeley and her Ph.D. in music technology at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. She also holds an M.Phil. degree in music theory from Columbia University as well as an M.A. in composition from York University in Toronto.
Devaney's research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSRHC), the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (FRQSC), the Google Faculty Research program, and, most recently, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities program.
