Nick Anderson (he/him) holds a B.S. in Astronomy/Physics and a B.A. in Music from the University of Virginia. His research interests center on anime music and its metaleptic role in constructing immersive mediascapes. He focuses on transmedial, virtual, and aspirational engagements of sound in the production of alternate worlds, particularly dealing with the slice-of-life genre and the Studio Ghibli films of Hayao Miyazaki. He has presented his recent Ghibli work at Music and the Moving Image and the American Musicological Society. An occasional medievalist, Nick received the 2021 Jerald C. Graue Fellowship for his translation and commentary on the motet Reverenter Veneremur/Venerandum Crucis Lignum, which he presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. He works as a Student Editor for the Middle English Text Series (METS) and at the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, and is Vice President of the Eastman Graduate Musicology Association for the 2024-25 academic year. 

nander13@u.rochester.edu