RN to BSN Program
Dr. Colin Roust – colin.roust@oberlin.edu
University of Missouri
(ancillary certificates: Graduate Certificate in Film and Video Studies, Michigan Teaching Fellows Certificate)
Colin Roust currently teaches at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, where he has taught (or will soon teach) courses on the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries; Brahms, Mahler, and Les Six; American music and film music. His dissertation, "The Film Music and Criticism of Georges Auric, 1919-1945," was the first extensive study of Auric's career after the years of Les Six and the Ballets Russes, and received Honorable Mention for the University of Michigan Distinguished Dissertation Award. His current projects include a monograph on Auric's film career, a translation of Quand j'étais là, a film music source readings anthology (co-edited with James Wierzbicki and Nathan Platte), and a study of music making by women in the French Resistance during World War II. He has presented his research at national and international meetings of the American Comparative Literature Association, American Musicological Society, Royal Musical Association, Society for American Music, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and Society for French Studies (UK).
