Educational Background
- Bachelor of Arts, Humboldt State University, 1990
- Master of Arts, University of Oregon, 1994
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oregon, 1999
Arnie Cox has taught at Oberlin since 1998. His primary research is on embodied cognition, with a focus on musical affect and metaphoric conceptualization. He has presented papers at numerous regional, national, and international conferences and his published essays appear in Music Perception 16/4 (Summer 1999), Musicae Scientiae 5/2 (Fall 2001) Spectrum 28/2 (Fall 2006), and the volume Music and Gesture (2006). He has also co-authored a paper with Rebecca Fülöp (Oberlin 2004) on the music of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which appears in the volume Music, Sound, and Silence in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Ashgate 2010).
Mr. Cox’s Ph.D. is from the University of Oregon where he studied with linguistic philosopher Mark Johnson. At Oberlin, Mr. Cox teaches aural skills and music theory, including his course entitled Music & Embodied Cognition. In May 2011 he will lead the inaugural pre-conference workshop at the annual Music Theory Midwest meeting in Nebraska, on the topic of Theorizing Musical Affect.
