Sam Reese
Biographic Data
| ID | 3859484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Reese |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Reese |
| SIGNATURE | REESE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0023-3333 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Only anecdotal
Traditionally, the short story has been understood as almost synonymous with loneliness, characterized by theorists and writers like Frank O’Connor as the quintessential ‘lonely form’. Contemporary short story writer Diane Williams stands out for her idiosyncratic challenge to the conventions of short story structure, drawing deliberately on the partiality and contingency of the anecdote. Analysing the structure and style of collection Fine, Fine…
Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates
During the mid-twentieth century, loneliness became the dominant affect in American fiction, reflecting a broader cultural narrative that social and demographic changes had led to a crisis of loneliness. This affective shift is captured in Richard Yates’s 1962 short story collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness—but Yates’s deliberate framing of his stories as “eleven kinds” implies a second object of critique. Reading Yates’s work for social and p…
Renaissance Women
Unashamedly intellectual, idiosyncratic, and often contrarian, Mary McCarthy and Brigid Brophy stood out among late-twentieth-century female writers, not only as public intellectuals but for the way their writing and social commentary cut against the grain on pivotal issues of progress, freedom, and aesthetic form, exposing and often satirizing the hypocrisy of their male contemporaries. From the mid-twentieth century onward, on both sides of the…
Teju Cole and Ralph Ellison's Aesthetics of Invisibility
Considering ‘invisibility’ as both subject matter and aestheticizing mode of experience, this essay uses the case studies of two American novels - Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) - to explore how a culturally specific, racially charged, subject is mapped outwards to occupy a broader aesthetic realm
Transforming Music Teaching via Technology
The purpose of this study was to determine if 1-week technology workshops can be an effective means for the professional development of music teachers in using technology for instruction. The results indicate that three indicators of effectiveness—teacher knowledge, teacher comfort, and frequency of teacher use—can he significantly improved in these settings. Participants ( N = 63) were music teachers enrolled in summer music technology workshops…
The Effects of Live Accompaniment, Intelligent Digital Accompaniment, and No Accompaniment on Musicians' Performance Quality
This study is an investigation of differences in performance-quality ratings among college-age instrumentalists grouped in three solo preparation conditions using (a) no accompaniment, (b) live accompaniment, or (c) intelligent digital accompaniment. After a 6-week practice period, participants performed an intermediate level solo on a secondary wind instrument in two conditions: (1) without accompaniment, and (2) within prescribed accompaniment …
Transforming Music Teaching via Technology
The purpose of this study was to determine if 1-week technology workshops can be an effective means for the professional development of music teachers in using technology for instruction. The results indicate that three indicators of effectiveness—teacher knowledge, teacher comfort, and frequency of teacher use—can he significantly improved in these settings. Participants ( N = 63) were music teachers enrolled in summer music technology workshops…
The Effects of Live Accompaniment, Intelligent Digital Accompaniment, and No Accompaniment on Musicians' Performance Quality
This study is an investigation of differences in performance-quality ratings among college-age instrumentalists grouped in three solo preparation conditions using (a) no accompaniment, (b) live accompaniment, or (c) intelligent digital accompaniment. After a 6-week practice period, participants performed an intermediate level solo on a secondary wind instrument in two conditions: (1) without accompaniment, and (2) within prescribed accompaniment …
Only anecdotal
Traditionally, the short story has been understood as almost synonymous with loneliness, characterized by theorists and writers like Frank O’Connor as the quintessential ‘lonely form’. Contemporary short story writer Diane Williams stands out for her idiosyncratic challenge to the conventions of short story structure, drawing deliberately on the partiality and contingency of the anecdote. Analysing the structure and style of collection Fine, Fine…
The Effects of Live Accompaniment, Intelligent Digital Accompaniment, and No Accompaniment on Musicians' Performance Quality
This study is an investigation of differences in performance-quality ratings among college-age instrumentalists grouped in three solo preparation conditions using (a) no accompaniment, (b) live accompaniment, or (c) intelligent digital accompaniment. After a 6-week practice period, participants performed an intermediate level solo on a secondary wind instrument in two conditions: (1) without accompaniment, and (2) within prescribed accompaniment …
Transforming Music Teaching via Technology
The purpose of this study was to determine if 1-week technology workshops can be an effective means for the professional development of music teachers in using technology for instruction. The results indicate that three indicators of effectiveness—teacher knowledge, teacher comfort, and frequency of teacher use—can he significantly improved in these settings. Participants ( N = 63) were music teachers enrolled in summer music technology workshops…
Teju Cole and Ralph Ellison's Aesthetics of Invisibility
Considering ‘invisibility’ as both subject matter and aestheticizing mode of experience, this essay uses the case studies of two American novels - Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952) - to explore how a culturally specific, racially charged, subject is mapped outwards to occupy a broader aesthetic realm
Renaissance Women
Unashamedly intellectual, idiosyncratic, and often contrarian, Mary McCarthy and Brigid Brophy stood out among late-twentieth-century female writers, not only as public intellectuals but for the way their writing and social commentary cut against the grain on pivotal issues of progress, freedom, and aesthetic form, exposing and often satirizing the hypocrisy of their male contemporaries. From the mid-twentieth century onward, on both sides of the…
Only anecdotal
Traditionally, the short story has been understood as almost synonymous with loneliness, characterized by theorists and writers like Frank O’Connor as the quintessential ‘lonely form’. Contemporary short story writer Diane Williams stands out for her idiosyncratic challenge to the conventions of short story structure, drawing deliberately on the partiality and contingency of the anecdote. Analysing the structure and style of collection Fine, Fine…
Eleven Kinds? Loneliness and Reading for Type with Richard Yates
During the mid-twentieth century, loneliness became the dominant affect in American fiction, reflecting a broader cultural narrative that social and demographic changes had led to a crisis of loneliness. This affective shift is captured in Richard Yates’s 1962 short story collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness—but Yates’s deliberate framing of his stories as “eleven kinds” implies a second object of critique. Reading Yates’s work for social and p…
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Diverse Music Education Insights (2 works) · History (2 works) · Loneliness (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)