Jason Hooper
Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Senior Lecturer II, Department of Music and Dance
Dr. Jason Hooper develops, implements, and evaluates programs that engage and support non-tenure-track faculty across campus, including clinical faculty, extension faculty, lecturers, and research faculty. This signature programming involves professional development workshops, mutual mentoring opportunities, and other events to foster community.
As Senior Lecturer II in the Department of Music and Dance, Jason also specializes in the theory and analysis of tonal music, historical and contemporary theories of form, and new approaches to theory pedagogy. His articles and reviews appear in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale, and Theory and Practice. He was editor of Theory and Practice and has served on the editorial boards of Intégral and Indiana Theory Review.
Jason holds a PhD in music theory from the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as an MM in music theory and a BM in trombone performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. He received the Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award while at CUNY and the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award from the Music Theory Society of New York State. He is a proud member of the Massachusetts Society of Professors (MSP/MTA/NEA), the union representing faculty and librarians at UMass Amherst.