Stanley C. Pelkey


Member, Nominating Committee
Elected November 2022; term ends November 2023

Stanley C. Pelkey serves as Director of the School of Music at the University of Kentucky. He previously served as Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York, and as Associate Dean of Engagement and Entrepreneurship in Florida State University’s College of Music.

Professor Pelkey researches and writes about American and British film and television music, Handel reception history, and the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He was the 2009 recipient of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship and has received support from the American Handel Society and London Handel Institute. His publications on film and television music include his edited collection, Anxiety Muted: American Film Music in a Suburban Age (Oxford); entries for Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO); his chapter, “Still Flyin’? Conventions, Reversals, and Musical Meaning in Firefly” in Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing: Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon (Scarecrow Press); a chapter on music and Cold War politics in Doctor Who: “The Gunfighters” for Relocating the Sounds of the Western (Routledge); and his essay “Dexter at Home in Suburbia: Domesticated Monster/Ideal Father,” in NEPCA 2017: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (Cambridge Scholars).

Professor Pelkey serves NASM as a visiting evaluator.

Professor Pelkey holds Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts degrees in Historical Musicology from the Eastman School of Music, as well as a Master of Arts in European History from the University of Rochester.

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Posted December 2022