David Geary
Assistant Professor of Music
Music Theory
David Geary is an Assistant Professor of Music at Wake Forest University and teaches courses in music theory and music history. His current research areas include popular music, rhythm and meter, and music theory pedagogy. Geary’s publications appear in Music Theory Online (2022, 2024),
Expanding the Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom (Routledge, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy (Routledge, 2020), and The Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy (2018, forthcoming). He has also presented research at meetings for the Society for Music Theory, Pedagogy into Practice: Teaching Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century, and six regional music theory societies.
Geary earned his PhD in Music Theory from Indiana University. He also holds a MA from the Eastman School of Music and a BM from Ithaca College. Before joining the faculty at Wake Forest University, Geary was a Visiting Instructor of Music Theory at Oberlin Conservatory. Serving the Society for Music Theory with various roles regionally and nationally since 2016, Geary is currently on the editorial board for SMT-V and was previously an editor for the Indiana Theory Review.
