Dr. Paula J. Bishop - musicology

Paula Bishop is on the faculty of the music department and currently serves as the co-director of the Part-Time Faculty Development Group. She has presented and published on the Everly Brothers, the Nashville songwriters Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, and feminism and country music. She is the co-editor with Jada Watson of Whose Country Music?: Genre, Identity and Belonging from Cambridge University Press, and with Kendra Preston Leonard of Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment from University Press of Mississippi. Her current research focuses on the role of nostalgia in country music.