Greenfield-Casas
Stefan Greenfield-Casas
I am a South Texas-based writer, educator, and musician.
I completed my PhD at Northwestern University, and have taught courses there and at the University of Richmond. As a writer and researcher, I have primarily examined the relationship between music and media. I also have experience working as a private tutor, archivist, developmental editor, curator, and freelance horn player.
From top left, clockwise: a) Headshot. Northwestern University. 2019. (pc: Fred Hosken); b) High Wire Arts Gallery Performance. San Antonio, TX. 2014; c) Audible Futures: Media, Ecology, and Art presentation. Hanyang University, Seoul. 2025.
Selected CV
Academic Appts.
2022—2025
Education
2017 - 2022
2015 - 2017
2011 - 2015
Publications
2025
2024
2023
2022
Presentations
2025
2024
2023
2022
Curation
2025
2018
Performances
2025
2022
2021
2019
University of Richmond
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Northwestern University
PhD in music theory & cognition
Certificate in critical theory
The University of Texas at Austin
MM in music theory
Certificate in interdisciplinary teaching
The University of Texas at San Antonio
BMus in horn performance, summa cum laude
Highest Honors distinction
“Limelight of the Idols: Voice, Virtuality, and VTubers.” In “Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age,” eds. Julin Lee and Emile Wennekes. Special Issue, Kieler Beiträge zur Filmmusikforschung 19 (2025): 59-79.
"The Lament[S] of the (Post)human: Existential Voice and/in NieR: Automata (2017)." In "Playing with Voice: Listening for Audio-Visual Expressions and Representations of Voice, Vocality, and Speech Acts in Games," eds. Kate Galloway and Janine Bower. Special Issue, The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies 9, nos. 1-2 (2025): 79-96.
“Video Games Alive: Ludic Liveness and (Re)playful Listenings in Video Game Music Concerts.” In The Oxford Handbook of Video Game Music and Sound. Edited by William Gibbons and Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard.
"From the Screen (to the Screen) to the Concert Hall: Arrangement as a Worldbuilding and Worldbridging Device in the Kingdom Hearts Series." In The Oxford Handbook of Arrangement Studies. Edited by Ryan Raul Bañagale.
with James Denis Mc Glynn. “‘We are what they grow beyond’: Visions (and Sounds) of a Transnational Star Wars.” Musicology Now. December 18. https://musicologynow.org/we-are-what-they-grow-beyond-visions-and-sounds-of-a-transnational-star-wars/.
“Uematsu’s Postgame: The Music of Final Fantasy in the Concert Hall (and Beyond).” In The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series. Edited by Richard Anatone.
“Death and Transfiguration: (Ludomusical) Adaptation across the Scott Pilgrim Franchise.” Music and the Moving Image XXI. Steinhardt School of New York University, May 30-June 1.
“The Politics of Virtual Voice.” Audible Futures: Media, Ecology, and Art. Music Research Center of Hanyang University, Seoul, March 28-29.
“Beyond Voice and Stream: Fan Constructed Lore in the Age of the 2.5D.” Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age. Joint conference of the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung and the International Musicological Society’s Music and Media Study Group. Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, June 6-7.
“Playing Between Forms: Intersemiotic Translation and the Classical Arrangement of Video Game Music.” Joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. Denver, CO, November 9-12.
“Virtual Ventriloquism: The Live 2D Hyperreal.” Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media. Harvard University, May 11-13.
“Replayful Listenings and the Fantasy of (Musically) Relived Experiences.” Joint meeting of the American Musicological Society, Society for Ethnomusicology, and Society for Music Theory. Hilton New Orleans Riverside, November 10-13.
Label contributor (Bethany Collins, The Dixie of Our Union, 2022), “Look Again: Art for Our Curriculum” exhibition in UR’s Harnett Museum of Art. January 28–May 17.
Co-curator under Ryan Dohoney, “Music Remains: Memory and Mourning in Northwestern University’s Distinctive Collections” exhibition in Northwestern’s Deering Library. December 14–March 17.
University of Richmond Video Game Orchestra: "A Night at Karaoke."
March Caprice 2.0: Kingdom Hearts 20th Anniversary Celebration Concert: "Twilight Town Melodies" (Reconstruction/"Final Mix" by Kinode).
Darian Donovan Thomas' "Untitled." Voice sampled for fixed audio. BRIC, Brooklyn, NY.
Steve Parker’s “War Tuba” closing reception/experimental music showcase. Featured soloist (at the invitation of Parker). Presa House Gallery, San Antonio, TX.