Course Director of World Music, University of Limerick Matthew Noone is an Australian-Irish ex-indie rocker, improviser, composer, artist-scholar and performer of the 25 stringed Indian sarode. After beginning his musical career as a guitarist and drummer in Brisbane in the mid 90s, Matthew fell in love with the sarode during a trip to India in 2003. He has studied North Indian Classical music for two decades with Sougata Roy Chowdhury in Kolkata and with UK based sarodiya, K. Sridhar. He performs Indian classical music across the globe and composes in a diverse range of disciplines ranging from Irish traditional music, free improvisation and contemporary electroacoustic music. Matthew is also an Irish Research Council scholar and was awarded a PhD for his work exploring the performance of Irish music and completed a postdoctoral fellowship investigating electroacoustic music improvisation. His research interests include cultural hybridity, phenomenology, consciousness and deep ecology. He is the Course Director of the BA in World Music at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.
Senior Data Analyst, Massey University Melika is a Senior data analyst at Southern Cross Healthcare in New Zealand. She completed her PhD at Massey University in Albany, Auckland, New Zealand. She has a background in Information Systems and is passionate about conducting research in this field. Her PhD study was designed to explore the scope of both actual and potential biases, and to investigate how human biases in decision-making and the development of AI decision-making programs can be uncovered and mitigated.
Lecturer in Global Human Resources Management, RMIT University Maria is an Assistant Professor at RMIT University. Before joining RMIT Maria undertook two years Postdoctoral Scholar and Research Fellow at Penn State University, USA. Maria did her PhD in Management, at the Business School, The University of Queensland. Within the international business and human resource management fields, Maria’s research interest covers corporate social responsibility, international HRM, global talent management, emerging economies, artificial intelligence, organizational culture. Maria has taught in USA, Australia, China, and Singapore, and presented her research work in several countries to academic and industry conferences in Europe, USA, Latin America, and Australia
Assistant Professor of English, University of Toronto Misha Teramura is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he researches and teaches the literature of the English Renaissance. His work has appeared in such journals as ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly, Modern Philology, English Literary Renaissance, RES, Early Theatre, and The Chaucer Review, as well as in the edited collections Lost Plays in Shakespeare’s England, Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time, and Shakespeare/Text: Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance. He is currently working on two book projects, titled Paper Plays: The Material Lives of Early Modern Manuscript Playbooks and Reading Lost Plays: Early Modern Drama and the Forms of Textual Survival, and is editing Henry IV, Part 2 for the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series. Other current research interests include textual scholarship, classical reception, and the circle of Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland. He is also a co-editor of the Lost Plays Database (with Roslyn L. Knutson [emerita], David McInnis, and Matthew Steggle) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Misha received his PhD in English from Harvard University after completing his undergraduate work at the University of Toronto. He taught at Reed College in Portland, OR for two years before returning to UofT.
Professor, University of Toronto Research Interests Agroecology, agrobiodiversity, biogeochemical cycling, plant functional traits, agrarian networks, sustainable agriculture Awards and Grants Canada Research Chair in Agroecosystems and Development
Doctoral student in psychology, Baylor University MacKenzie Paul is a PhD student in Baylor University's Social Psychology Program. She received her B.S. in Psychology and B.A. in Philosophy from Mississippi State University in May of 2023. Her primary research interests are at the intersection of psychology and religion, with current projects focusing on the effect of religious music on emotions and relationships, and collaborations between faith leaders and mental health professionals.
