Julian Grey
I’m an (ethno)musicologist specializing in the sound world(s) of drag, popular music, trans studies, film, and digital studies. I’m a practice-driven scholar, actively working as a drag artist and photographer. I completed my PhD in Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. PRONOUNS: They/Them
DISSERTATION: Non-Binary Drag: A Trans Musicology of Sensation and Interperformativity
UPCOMING (TBD):
“Sounding Out Loud: Haptic Aurality and Gender Euphoria in Non-Binary Drag” (journal article)
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“Living Loud, or Why There's No Gender on the Moon" essay in the edited volume Name / Understand / Play: Reflecting on Metaphors in Music and Sound
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RECENT AWARDS:
2024 Louise E. Cuyler Prize in Musicology for Best Dissertation Chapter for “Living Life, Living Loud: Affective Transmission of Trans* Euphoria”
2023-2024 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Award - University of Michigan
2020 Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award (Israel) [cancelled due to COVID-19]
RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
2023:
“LGBTQ+ Censorship and Public Spaces: A Drag Conversation-Recital,” Organized Roundtable Performance-Discussion, Society for Ethnomusicology
“Re/Mediating the Drag Narrative: Gender Euphoria in Live-Streamed Short Videos,” ICTM Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology, Cork, Ireland
“Performing Through the Mirror: Trans Drag on Twitch,” Music and the Internet, University of Chicago
2022:
“Drag Kings, Queens, and Non-Binary Monarchs: Haptic Aurality and Anti-Misogyny in Tel Avivi Nightclubs,” Society for Ethnomusicology Joint Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA