James Denis Mc Glynn is a scholar of music and sound in film, television, and a variety of digital media contexts. His specialist interests include the rearrangement of pre-existing music, film/TV adaptations, video game music, and algorithmic culture. He is currently a Research Fellow in Screen Studies at Trinity College Dublin, where he is part of the Irish Research Council Laureate Award project (2022-2026) "From Cinematic Realism to Extended Reality" led by Dr. Jennifer O'Meara. His doctoral thesis, completed in 2020, explores the rearrangement of pre-existing music in recent film and television scores. His recent research outputs include publications in The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Music and the Moving Image, The Journal of Sound and Music in Games, and the anthology After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen. His forthcoming publications include chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music and Television and The Oxford Handbook of Music, Sound and Trauma Studies.
