Westley Montgomery

Westley is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at Stanford University and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. 

Westley's scholarly and teaching interests include Performance Studies; Feminist, Gender, and Trans Studies; Black Studies; Sound Studies; Critical Musicology; and Technology and Society Studies. Current research interests include opera pedagogies, performance practices, and cultures; technologies of sound recording, amplification, and augmentation; gender and the uses of the voice in HyperPop; and Social media, AI, and algorithmic performance platforms. 

Westley is also a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist and has produced, curated, dramaturged, and directed several new works and productions.