Ellen Waterman

Ellen Waterman is Associate Professor in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph. She holds the Ph.D. in Critical Studies and Experimental Practices from the Department of Music at the University of California, San Diego, and is a professional flutist specializing in creative improvisation and contemporary music. Recent performances include artist-in-residencies at The Art of Immersive Soundscapes II (U. Regina, 2007) and the Sound Travels festival (Toronto, 2008).

Working at the intersection of performance studies, ethnomusicology and cultural studies, Ellen's current research includes a comparative study of experimental music performance in Canada. She is an executive member of the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice research project, funded by a SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiatives grant. Her anthology Sonic Geography Imagined and Remembered (Penumbra 2002) provided the first cultural critique of acoustic ecology, and she is currently co-editing a book on the art of immersive soundscapes with Pauline Minevich. Ellen is founding co-editor of the refereed open access electronic journal Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation. During 2008/9 she will be visiting scholar at the Centre for Research and Teaching on Women at McGill University.