Mount Allison University Dean of Arts and Music Professor Dr. Elizabeth Wells was honoured by the American Musicological Society (AMS) with their Teaching Award for 2017. Wells was presented with the award at the Society’s annual meeting in Rochester, NY on November 11. Wells received the award for her paper …
Mount Allison music students take the popular event The Elephant in the Room to Brunton Auditorium to discuss the issue of mental health in the music classroom and talk about their individual experiences. Mount Allison’s mental health educator Karen Geldart, music professor Dr. Elizabeth Wells, as well as several music …
SACKVILLE, NB — Mount Allison University Music professor Dr. Elizabeth Wells has a lot to celebrate this spring. The 3M Teaching Fellow has been named the 2015 Paul Paré Medal recipient, which recognizes contributions of outstanding quality that demonstrate a balanced approach to teaching, research/creative performance, scholarship, service, and outreach. …
The Huffington Post recently featured Elizabeth’s Beatles course at Mount Allison University in its list of the Coolest Classes in Canada! The Beatles What it’s all about: “This course addresses the musical, social, and cultural issues surrounding one of the most important rock groups of the twentieth century .. The …
Elizabeth Wells is profiled in two recent publications, the Rochester Review (September-October 2013) and the Trinity College Donor Report (Winter, 2014). In a regular feature entitled “Master Class”, University of Rochester alumna Wells answers questions posed by the editors as to what makes a great American Musical. David Cowles, renowned …
Dr. Elizabeth Wells recently gave a TEDx talk at Bishops University. You can watch her talk, entitled “To the Lighthouse,” here. To the Lighthouse: Dr. Elizabeth Wells at TEDxBishopsU
Dr. Elizabeth Wells has recently been named the new Pickard-Bell Chair in Music at Mount Allison University. This Chair was established in 1966 with a generous endowment from the estate of Winthrop Pickard Bell, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. This very substantial bequest to Mount Allison was in memory of Dr. Bell’s …
Excerpt from the review by Jim Lovensheimer: In short, Wells and Simeone have joined the still short but growing list of scholars who are defining musical theater studies, and each has joined that list with an insightful and skilled monograph about one of the genre’s most problematic yet successful works. …
Mount Allison University Music department head Dr. Elizabeth Wells will take over the role of chair of the Council of 3M National Teaching Fellows later this month. Mount Allison University press release
In November, 2012, at the annual conference of the American Musicological Society, Elizabeth Wells received the Music in American Culture Award for her book West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical. According to the American Musicological Society website, “The Music in American Culture Award honors each year a …