Have you ever wondered why sound makes us feel? What about how film scores get made? Learn about all that and more in this edition of Office Hours!

Our guest is Tim Huling, a screen scoring professor at the Berklee College of Music. Outside of teaching, he is a composer, orchestrator, and producer who works in music for film, TV, video games, the concert hall, and more. His credits include films such as Georgia Rule and Mad Money; TV shows such as Little People, Big World and Inside Passage; video games such as Planetary Annihilation and Skyrealm; and installations such as Hunger Games at the Motiongate Theme Park and Great Seattle Fire at MOHAI. Tim has composed concert premieres, including works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensemble, various jazz works, and two ballets.

Dr. Kristina Steiner is a lifespan developmental psychologist who teaches at Denison University. She runs a research program that focuses on autobiographical memory and is especially interested in investigating the directive function of personal and shared memories across age groups and cultures, as well as the relationships between life story narratives and various outcomes, such as well-being.

I would like to welcome Alina Parker to our fourth episode of office hours. Alina is a full-time lecturer in the Writing Program and the Russian, Eurasian, and Polish Studies Program at UMass Amherst. Her research interests include postsocialism, Eastern Europe, political contention, and far-right politics. She is originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and I took a class on Russia's invasion of Ukraine that she taught last semester.