Lori Burns is Professor of Music at the University of Ottawa
Her interdisciplinary research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, merges musical analysis and cultural theory to explore representations of gender and sexuality in the lyrical, musical, and visual texts of popular music. She has published articles in edited collections published by Ashgate, Bloomsbury, Cambridge, Garland, Oxford, Routledge, the University of Michigan Press, and Wesleyan Press, as well as in leading journals (Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, The Journal for Music, Sound, and Moving Image, Studies in Music, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online and The Journal for Music Theory).
She is co-editor of The Pop Palimpsest with Serge Lacasse (2018), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Popular Music Video Analysis with Stan Hawkins (2019), Analyzing Recorded Music with William Moylan and Mike Alleyne (2022), The Routledge Handbook or Progressive Rock, Metal, and the Literary Imagination with Chris Anderton (forthcoming 2024), The Routledge Handbook of Metal Music Composition with Ciro Scotto (forthcoming 2024), and The Routledge Handbook to the Popular Music Cover Song with Mike Alleyne (forthcoming 2025). She was a founding Co-Editor of the Tracking Pop Series of the University of Michigan Press and is now Co-Editor of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series and Associate Editor of Music Theory Spectrum.
