Caitlin Vaughn Carlos
Founder
Education
PhD in Musicology – 2021
University of California Los Angeles
Herb Albert School of Music
Masters of Arts in Musicology – 2014
University of Southern California
Thornton School of Music
Master of Music in performance – 2011
University of Redlands
School of Music
Bachelor of Music in Performance – 2009
Chapman University
Conservatory of Music
Positions Held
2019 – Present
2019 – Present
2015 – Present
2019
2015 – 2019
2017 – 2018
2007 – 2015
2015
2013 – 2015
2012
2011 – 2015
2011
2009 – 2011
2005 – 2008
2001-2012
Founder / Owner – VaughnCarlos Education LLC, DBA Music Universe
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History – University of Redlands
Music Teacher / Choir Director – Good Shepherd Catholic School (Beverly Hills, CA)
Instructor – UCLA Herb Albert School of Music, Department of Music Industry
Adjunct Faculty – Chapman University
Teaching Assistant – UCLA Sixties Cluster
Private Voice and Piano Instructor
Class Voice Instructor – Chapman University Summer Choral Camp
Liturgy Ensemble Director – St. Nobert Catholic Church (Orange, CA)
Interim Music Director – St. Cecilia Catholic Church (Tustin, CA)
Music Teacher – St. Columban Catholic School (Garden Grove, CA)
Long-term Substitute Music Teacher – St. Hedwig Catholic School (Los Alamitos, CA)
Voice Instructor – Community School for the Arts, University of Redlands
Concert Music Teacher (Christmas & Spring Concerts) – St. Cecilia Catholic School (Tustin, CA)
Cantor; VBS Music Director
Awards
Fellowships
2019
2018
2011
2009
2008
Dean’s Medal, UCLA Herb Albert School of Music
Ciro Zoppo Graduate Student Award, UCLA
Graduate Student Service Award, University of Redlands School of Music
Music History Award, Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music
Academic Excellence Award, Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music
2019
2015, 2018
2015, 2018
2016
2011
2009
Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA
Mellon Fellowship of Distinction, UCLA
Pauley Fellowship, UCLA
Graduate Research Mentorship, UCLA
Graduate Full Tuition Scholarship, USC
Graduate Assistantship, University of Redlands
Publications
Caitlin Vaughn Carlos. ’Ramble On’: Tolkien, Urban Criticism and Romantic protest in Led Zeppelin” The Oxford Handbook of Music and Medievalism. Eds. Kristen Yri, Stephen Meyer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
Caitlin Vaughn Carlos. “Historical Nostalgia, Nature and the Future in Three Iconic Albums from 1971: Aqualung, Who’s Next and Led Zeppelin IV” Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts. Ed. Tina Frühauf (Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2020).Caitlin
Caitlin Vaughn Carlos. “I Must Remember, Even If It Takes a Million Years: Nostalgic Futurism in Pete Townshend’s Lifehouse Project” Lied und populaere Kulture 64, (2019): 155-169.
Caitlin Vaughn Carlos, “Eight-Track Nostalgia: Finding Abbey Road at the Nexus of Progress and Reflection. Produce Like a Pro. April 18, 2020. https://producelikeapro.com/blog/eight-track-nostalgia-finding-abbey-road-at-the-nexus-of-progress-and-reflection/
Conferences
Papers Presented
March 2018
International Association for the Study of Popular Music – US Branch, 2019 Annual Conference
Title: “Out in the Country”: Rural Romanticism, The Western and Folk Ideology in American Rock Music at the Turn of the 1970s
March 2015
Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts International Conference, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Title: The Problem of Historical Nostalgia, Nature and the Future in Three Iconic Albums from 1971: Aqualung, Who’s Next and Led Zeppelin IV
Papers Accepted
Middle Ages in the Modern World, Rome (November 2018)
Title: Religious Medievalism as a Gateway to Pastness in Jethro Tull’s Aqualung and A Passion Play
Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, University of Campinas,
Brazil (July 2015)
Title: The Problem of Historical Nostalgia, Nature and the Future in Three Iconic Albums from 1971: Aqualung, Who’s Next and Led Zeppelin IV
Independant Work & Service
2019-present
2018-present
2019
2017-2018
2017
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Honors Student Thesis Committee, University of Redlands, Member
Reviewer for Online Digital Content Platform, Norton – The Enjoyment of Music 13th edition
General Education (Artistic Inquiry) Assessment Reviewer / Instructor, Chapman University
Honors Capstone Thesis Advisor, Chapman University
Independent Consultant – Curriculum Content Development, Prodigies Music LLC