Janice Dickensheets

• Doctor of Arts, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, Music History and Literature with Secondary in Music Technology
• Master of Music, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, Vocal Performance and Pedagogy
• Bachelor of Arts, Mesa College, Grand Junction, CO, Visual & Performing Arts, Primary Emphasis: Music; Secondary Emphasis: Dance

• Fall 2023 – Present Professor, School of Music, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
• Fall 2018 – Spring 2023 Associate Professor, School of Music, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
• Fall 2013 – Spring 2018 Assistant Professor, School of Music, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
• 1998- Spring 2013 Adjunct Instructor, School of Music University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
• Editor in Chief, Ursidae:  The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado, 2016 – Present
• Faculty Fellow, Office of Undergraduate Research, UNC, 2016-2020

• Nineteenth-century Musical Styles
• Narrative studies in Nineteenth-Century Music
• Current research in Ossianism & The Bardic Style in Music and Ossianism, Longfellow, and Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”
• Musical styles in film, particularly Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit
• Opera and Shakespeare

Book Chapter. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS, THE SONATA CYCLE & IMPLICATIONS FOR PERFORMANCE: A READING OF BRAHMS’S PIANO SONATA NO. 2 IN F-SHARP MINOR. In Julian Hellaby (Ed.), Musical Topics and Musical Performance (pp. Chapter 6). Oxford: Routledge.

International Symposium Presentation, Musical Topics and Performance Practice:  A Symposium, “Ossianism, the Bardic Style, and Nineteenth-Century American Aesthetics in Dvořák’s New World Symphony”, Music and the Moving Image,  (June 2, 2023).

International Conference Presentation, Music and the Moving Image XIX, “Nineteenth-century Topics & Film Music in the College Classroom”, Music and the Moving Image,  (May 28, 2023).

Regional Conference Presentation, Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference (AMS), “Musical Associations and Aragorn’s Hero Journey in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings,” University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. (March 11, 2022).

International Conference Presentation, Music and the Moving Image XVI, “Uncovering the Musical Tapestries in Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit,” Music and the Moving Image, Virtual. (May 31, 2020).

“The Topical Vocabulary of the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Musicological Research XXXI/2-3 (April-September 2012), 97-137. Colorado)

2020, UNC, Provost Teaching Award for Classroom Community Building
2011, UNC, First Year Scholar’s Outstanding Faculty
2010, UNC, McNair, Mentor of Best Research Paper Award Winner
2008, UNC, First Year Scholar’s Outstanding Faculty