Jessica Getman

Jessica Getman is a film musicologist, with emphasis in television studies and science fiction media. Her PhD dissertation at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, was on music and social discourse in the original series of Star Trek, and she has recently published a co-edited collection of essays on music in that franchise for the publisher Routledge. She is a co-editor for the Oxford Handbook of Music and Television, and she has published on Twin Peaks: The Return, The Magicians, the representation of artificial intelligence in the Star Trek franchise, and various topics in fandom and audience studies. Her former position as the Managing Editor for The George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition at the University of Michigan has led to her work on the symphonic arrangement of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. She is excited to share her interests in screen media, popular music, amateur music, critical editing, historically-informed performance practice, and twentieth-century American music with her CSUSB students and community.