Stefan Greenfield-Casas

Stefan Greenfield-Casas earned his Ph.D. in music theory and cognition from Northwestern University, where he also earned an Interdisciplinary Certificate in critical theory. He is a music and media theorist whose recent research has variously examined the classical arrangement and concertization of video game music, transmedial adaptations, and posthuman vocalities.

Greenfield-Casas has presented his research at dozens of conferences, including meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the American Musicological Society, Music and the Moving Image, the North American Conference on Video Game Music, the International Musicological Society's Music and Media Study Group, and the Royal Musical Association’s Music and Philosophy Study Group, among others. His recent and forthcoming publications have focused on Japanese media properties and theories, including Square Enix’s JRPGs, the Evangelion saga, Hisaishi's Ghibli scores, the Pokémon and Scott Pilgrim transmedia franchises, Star Wars Visions, and VTubers.

His current book project, provisionally entitled The Afterlife of Square Enix’s Music: Resurrection and Replay, from Concerti to Covers, interweaves music theoretical analysis and industry interviews with Japanese media and marketing theories to argue for Square Enix’s indispensable role in culturally legitimizing video game music through their (Western) classical arrangements and concerts. Beyond his own monograph, he is also a section editor of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Video Game Music (under contract), co-editor of Performing Video Game Music: Communities, Practices, and Histories (under contract with Jenny Stanford Publishing), and co-editor with TJ Laws-Nicola and Hyeonjin Park of the special issue of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games on the theme of “Co-Op Scholarship” (2025). Prior to coming to UT, he was on the faculty at the University of Richmond. 

MUS 411A/B 
Ear Training and Sight-Singing III/IV

MUS 388T 
Analytical Techniques 

MUS 306M 
Elements of Music 

“Death and Transfiguration: (Ludomusical) Adaptation across the Scott Pilgrim Franchise.” In Adaptation, Rearrangement, and Music Across Screen Media. Edited by Kate Galloway, Reba Wissner, and Katherine Reed. Routledge Music and Screen Media Series. Routledge, 2026. 

“The Lament[S] of the (Post)human: Existential Voice and/in NieR: Automata (2017).” In “Playing with Voice: Listening for Audiovisual 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. 

“Limelight of the Idols: Voice, Virality, 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. 

Greenfield-Casas, Stefan, TJ Laws-Nicola, and Hyeonjin Park, eds. “Co-Op Scholarship.” Special Issue, Journal of Sound and Music in Games 6, no. 2 (Spring 2025).