Faculty Experts

Theo Cateforis

Associate Professor, Music History and Cultures

Field

Music

Expertise

Theo Cateforis’s research is in the areas of popular music, American music and film music, with a specific focus on the history of rock music. He has published and presented widely on various rock genres and movements, such as new wave, post-punk, math rock and riot grrrl. He has also explored issues of youth and gender in teen movies and emerging adulthood in indie rock music of the 2000s. His most current research is on 1990s’ alternative rock.

Dr. Cateforis is the author of Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s and the editor of The Rock History Reader.

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Theo Cateforis

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