Ryan Bunch
1329 Lombard Street, Apt. 602
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19147
(267) 973-9756
ryan@ryanbunch.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Childhood
Studies, Rutgers University, expected 2021
M.A., Historical Musicology, University of Maryland, 2001
B.A., Music, Hendrix College, 1997
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
and COURSES TAUGHT
2016-present Rutgers University-Camden, Graduate Assistant
Research Assistant to Daniel Hart (Fall 2018)
Instructor, Introduction to Childhood Studies (online, Summer 2018)
Instructor, Introduction to Childhood Studies (online, Summer 2018)
Teaching Assistant, Senior Seminar, with Lynne Vallone (Spring 2018)
Teaching Assistant, Senior Seminar, with Susan Miller (Fall 2017)
Teaching Assistant, Ethnographies of Childhood, with Sarada Balagopalan
(Spring 2017)
Research Assistant to Meredith Bak (Fall 2016)
2010-2018 Rutgers University-Camden, Artist Associate
Voice I-V
2016 Temple University, Instructor
Music
in History (Spring 2016)
2009-2016 Community College of Philadelphia, Instructor
Introduction
to Music (Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2014, Fall 2015)
Music Reading
(Spring 2015)
Piano I
(Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2015)
Modern
American Music (Fall 2012)
Music of
African Americans (Spring 2011)
2009 Camden County College, Continuing Education Instructor
The American
Musical (Fall 2009)
2008-2012 Holy Family University, Instructor
Music Appreciation (Fall 2008-Fall
2012)
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Oz and the Musical: Performing
the American Fairy Tale. Oxford University Press, under contract.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Article
2015 “Oz and the Musical: The American Art Form
and the Reinvention of the American Fairy Tale.” Studies in Musical Theatre 9, no. 1 (2015): 53-69.
Chapters in Edited Collections and
Conference Proceedings
2018 “Ease
on Down the Road: Black Routes and the Soul of The Wiz.” In Adapting The Wizard of Oz: Musical Versions From Baum to MGM and Beyond, edited by Danielle
Birkett and Dominic McHugh. Oxford University Press.
2017 “‘Love
Is an Open Door’: Repeating and Revising Disney’s Musical Tropes in Frozen.” In Contemporary Musical Film, edited by Beth Carroll and Kevin
Donnelly. University of Edinburgh Press.
2017 “You
Can’t Stop the Tweet: Convergence Culture and Networks of Participation in the
Live Television Musical.” In iBroadway:
Musical Theatre in the Digital Age, edited by Jessica Hillman. Palgrave.
2017 “Repetition,
Resistance, and the Child as Performing Object in Disney’s It’s a Small World” In Reimagining
the Child: Proceedings of the 2016 Rutgers-Camden Graduate Student Conference
in Childhood Studies, edited by Julian Burton and Katie Fredricks.
Forthcoming “Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music.”
In Broadway Babies: Children, Childhood
and Musical Theater, edited by James Leve and Donelle Ruwe. Ashgate.
Forthcoming “‘My Corner of the Sky’: Adolescence and Coming of Age in the
Musicals of Stephen Schwartz.” In The
Routledge Companion to the American Stage Musical: 1970 and Beyond, edited
by Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth Wollman. Routledge.
Book Review
2016 Shauna Vey, Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the
Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015),
The Lion and the Unicorn 40, no. 1 (2016): 124-127.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2018 “Fun Home and Broadway’s Ghostly Queer
Kids,” Children’s Literature
Association, San Antonio, TX; Song, Stage and Screen, UCLA; Playing with Childhood in the Twenty-First
Century, University of Pittsburgh.
2018 Seminar
Paper, Mediated Space by/for Young People, Society for Cinema and Media Studies,
Toronto, ON.
2017 “Childhood
and the Politics of Innocence in Boy and
the World,” Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association,
Philadelphia PA; Conceptualizing Children and Youth Conference, Brock
University, St. Catharines, ON.
2017 “Knowledge
is Power: Music, Animation, and American History in Schoolhouse Rock,” International Research Society for Children’s
Literature, Toronto, ON; Society for the History of Childhood and Youth,
Camden, NJ; Music and the Moving Image,
New York, NY; Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San
Diego, CA.
2016 “Performing
Objects, Child Subjects, and Disney’s It’s
a Small World,” Mid-Atlantic Popular
and American Culture Association, Atlantic City, NJ, 2016; Youngsters: On the Cultures of Children and
Youth, Association for Research in Cultures of Young People, Simon Fraser
University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2016; Children’s Literature Association, Columbus, Ohio, 2016; Reimagining the Child: Next Steps in the Study of Childhood(s), Rutgers
University, Camden, NJ, 2016.
2016 Convergence
Culture and Networks of Participation in the Live Television Musical, Song, Stage, and Screen XI, New York, New
York, 2016.
2015 “‘Love
Is an Open Door’: Revising and Repeating Disney’s Musical Tropes in Frozen,” Music and the Moving Image, New York, New York, 2015.
2015 “Bursting
Into Flight: Adolescent Desire and Embodied Song in Animated Musicals of the
Disney Renaissance,” Children’s Literature Association, Richmond, Virginia,
2015; Society for American Music,
Sacramento, California, 2015; Music and
the Moving Image, New York, New York, 2013; The Performing Body in the Hollywood Film Musical, Colgate
University, Hamilton, New York, 2013.
2014 “Oz
and the Musical: How the American Art Form Transformed the American Fairy
Tale,” Oz and the Cultural Imagination, University
of Brighton, 2014.
2014 “Beginning
with Do Re Mi: The Childhood Musical and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music,” Song, Stage and Screen IX, Hamilton, Ontario, 2014; Children’s
Literature Association, Columbia, South Carolina, 2014.
2014 “From
Broadway to Sesame Street: Neighborhoods of Make-Believe and the Afterlife of
Tin Pan Alley on Children’s Television,” Music
and the Moving Image, New York, New York, 2014; Music on Small Screens, Music and Media study group of the
International Musicological Society, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2013.
2013 “It’s
a Small Transnational Capitalist Utopia After All: Pleasure, Technology and the
Performing Object in Disney’s It’s a
Small World,” Association for
Theatre in Higher Education, Orlando, Florida, 2013.
2013 “Performing
the American Fairy Tale: Ritual, Play, and The
Wizard of Oz,” Children’s
Literature Association, Biloxi, Mississippi, 2013.
2013 “The
(Anti-)Rock Musical: Bye Bye Birdie’s Generational
Crisis and the End of Broadway’s Golden Era,” Popular Culture
Association/American Culture Association, Washington, D.C., 2013. Earlier
version presented as “Rock, Race and Assimilation Anxiety in Bye Bye Birdie” at the Sixth
Susan Porter Memorial Symposium: Classic Broadway and Those Who Built It,
American Music Research Center, Boulder Colorado, 2010.
2012 “No
Place Like Home?: Collaboration and the Queer-Jewish American Utopia of The Wizard of Oz,” Music and the Moving Image, New York, New York, 2012; Song Stage and Screen VI, Kansas City,
Missouri, 2011.
2012 “Ease
on Down the Road: The Black Musical and the Routes of Soul in The Wiz,” Society for American Music, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2013; Song, Stage and Screen VII, Groeningen,
Netherlands, 2012; International Association for the Study of Popular Music,
New York, New York, 2012.
2012 “Rainbows
Have Nothing to Hide: Ritual, Play, and Brechtian Theatrics in The Muppet Movie,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, Boston,
Massachusetts, 2012.
2011 “Getting
Over the Rainbow: Divas, Camp and the Queer National Anthem,” The Diva: An International Conference, Liverpool Hope
University, Liverpool, UK, 2011. Earlier versions presented for the International
Association for the Study of Popular Music (2011), the American Musicological
Society of Greater New York (2010), the Capital Chapter of the American
Musicological Society (2001), and the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for
Ethnomusicology (2000).
2000 “Keeping America Pure: Anticommunism, National Identity and the
Politics of Place in Copland’s The Tender
Land,” Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society in conjunction
with the Aaron Copland and American Identity festival, University of Maryland,
College Park, 2000.
INVITED TALKS AND GUEST LECTURES
2018 “Getting a Ph.D.: What’s it Really Like?” Talk to M.A. students in
English and Communication at Rutgers University-Camden.
2013 Guest lecture on childhood and
Christmas music for Children and Christmas course taught by Patrick Cox in the
Childhood Studies Department at Rutgers University-Camden, August 12.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP and COMMUNITY OUTREACH
2017 Book review of Walter Frisch, Arlen and Harburg’s Over the Rainbow for
the Baum Bugle.
2016 Convention chair, International
Wizard of Oz Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2015 “The Soul of The Wiz,” presentation at OzCon
International, San Diego, California.
2014-2015 Lecture series at John C. Anderson
Apartments, an LGBT-Friendly Community, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2014 “Oz and the Musical,”
presentation at OzCon International, San Diego, California.
2013-2014 Privately organized “Rogue Lectures” with
field trips to theatrical performances and cinematic openings.
2010 Pre-show lecture for Bye Bye Birdie, Players Club of
Swarthmore, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
2007 Reviewer,
Stage Magazine Online.
2006-2007 Education Writer, Sounds of Learning
study guides, Opera Company of Philadelphia.
SERVICE
2018- Area Chair of Children and
Childhood Studies, Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
2017-2018 Treasurer, Graduate Student Association, Department
of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University-Camden
2015-17 Peer reviews of journal articles and
book proposals
2014 Selection Committee, AMS
Mid-Atlantic Chapter
2014 Talent competition judge for
Korean Student Association, Rutgers-Camden
2012-2015 Committee to revise Course Learning
Outcomes mandated by Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Community
College of Philadelphia
2011 Co-author, music history
placement exam, Community College of Philadelphia
2010 Vocal coach and music director,
Holy Family University Drama Club
2001 Musicology representative to
Music Student Advisory Committee, University of Maryland, College Park
OTHER EXPERIENCE
2017-2020 Vice President, International
Wizard of Oz Club
2014-2017 Board of Directors, International
Wizard of Oz Club
2005-2016 Private Singing Instructor,
Ryan Bunch Voice Studio
2006-2010 Vocal Studio Instructor,
Mainstage Center for the Arts
2002-2010 Freelance music director for
school and community theater musicals
1999-2008 Puppeteer, Beale Street
Puppets
2006-2007 Subscriber Services
Assistant, Opera Company of Philadelphia
2002-2005 Script writer, composer,
songwriter, puppeteer, music director, design and build assistant, and educational workshop instructor, Renaissance
Artist Puppet Company,
2002-2003 Teaching Artist, Education
Through Music
2001-2002 Piano Instructor, Mobile
Musical Instruction
1999-2001 Circulation Desk, Performing
Arts Library, University of Maryland
AFFILIATIONS
American Musicological Society
Association for Research in Cultures of Young People
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Children’s Literature Association
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
International Research Society for Children’s Literature
International Wizard of Oz Club
National Association of Teachers of Singing
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
Society for American Music
Society for the History of Childhood and Youth
Society for Cinema and Media Studies