Michelle Grosser is a music theorist with active research interests in ludomusicology and music cognition. She has served as an adjunct professor of music theory at ETSU since 2022 and she is a PhD Candidate in music theory at the University of Toronto where she is writing a dissertation titled “Experiencing Avatar/Player Distributed Agency: The Role of the Soundtrack in Open-World Video Games.”
Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College and a Master of Music in Music Theory from the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. She has presented her research in the United States, Canada, and Europe including at the Music and the Moving Image Conference, the International Conference for Music Perception and Cognition, Press Start: A Video Game Symposium, and has published in the Journal for Sound and Music in Games.
When she is not studying or teaching, Michelle loves to read fiction and spend time outdoors with her partner and their oh so-adorable puppy dog, Luna.