Author: Laurel Westrup / University of California, Los Angeles

Laurel Westrup received her Ph.D. in Cinema and Media Studies from UCLA, where she is now a Continuing Lecturer with Writing Programs and the Honors Program. She is also Affiliated Faculty at Emerson College Los Angeles, where she teaches a seminar on music video and short musical media. Her work on music video has appeared in Projector and several collections, including ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (2019). She is co-editor of Sampling Media (2014) with David Laderman and The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media (forthcoming) with Paul N. Reinsch.