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William Cheng is Chair and Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, where he also serves as an Affiliate Faculty in African and African American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Film & Media Studies. His research bridges cultural histories, disability studies, media theory, care ethics, race, and queerness. Cheng holds a B.A. in Music (Piano Performance) and English (Creative Writing) from Stanford University (2007) and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Harvard University (2013).
Notable works include Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (2014), Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (2016), and Loving Music Till It Hurts (2019). He co-edited Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (2019) and A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age (2023). His op-eds appear in Washington Post, Slate, and TIME.
Cheng has received over 15 major awards, including the 2023 Dartmouth Scholarly Innovation Grant and 2022 Radcliffe Fellowship. His current projects include Touching Pitch, a multimedia exploration of classical improvisation, and Gaslight of the Gods, examining trauma in music education.
Teaching focuses on music and media, video games as philosophical tools, and social justice in music studies. He leads courses like ‘Music and Social Justice’ and ‘Video Games & the Meaning of Life’.
