Rina Sugawara
Areas of Study: Department of Music Contact: Email Interests:
Twentieth-century music and form, psychoanalysis, philosophy
Cohort Year: 2018
Biography
Rina Sugawara is a clarinetist and music theorist who studies the intersections of music, literature, and psychoanalysis. She is especially interested in fantasy as a literary genre, musical form, and psychoanalytic concept. She is also drawn to things that simultaneously look/sound/feel cute and uncanny such as Miyazaki films, children’s literature, and puppets.
Education
MA, University of Minnesota, 2018
MMus, University of Michigan, 2016
BMus, Baldwin Wallace University, 2014