Bio
Mayna Tyrrell (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology. She holds a BM in musicology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she wrote a senior thesis on music therapy applications towards schizophrenia, and a MM in Ethnomusicology from Florida State University, where her thesis examined traumatic memory in diaspora through a choral work centering on the sent-down movement during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Now at University of Michigan, her dissertation explores disability, gender, and embodiment in the transnational taiko community, focusing primarily on Japan and the U.S.
Updated on: 9/5/2024