Brandon L. Foskett

he/him

Brandon L. Foskett looking at the camera with a faint smile.

Teaching Assistant in Musicology

Brandon L. Foskett (he/him/his) is a Texas-based musicologist with a passion for listening to music, plain and simple. A recent graduate from the Butler School of Music (B.A., 2024), Brandon is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Musicology  at The University of Texas at Austin. His interests include film music, Italian historical musicology, gender/sexuality studies, and the music of American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. Brandon has presented research at regional and international conferences including the American Musicological Society–Southwestern Chapter (Fall 2022, Spring 2024), the national American Musicological Society (Fall 2023), UCLA’s MUSE (Spring 2024), and NYU’s Music and the Moving Image (Spring 2024). Brandon is a recipient of the University's George Mitchell Co-Op Award for Academic Excellence, The College of Fine Arts' Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performing Arts, and Butler School of Music’s Rainwater Grant for a current project entitled “unmUTe: UT Butler School of Music Undergraduate Academic E-Journal.”

MUS 213M 
History of Music I 

[Forthcoming] “Pretty and Problematic: The Use of Music in Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2017),” MUSE, 2024.

Contact Information

Campus location
MRH 3.508

Teaching Areas

Musicology & Ethnomusicology 
 

Education

Bachelor of Music 
The University of Texas at Austin