Brooke McCorkle Okazaki is an Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She specializes in opera of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, film music, and the music of modern Japan. In addition to her essays on film sound, McCorkle Okazaki is the co-author of Japan’s Green Monsters: Environmental Commentary in Kaijū Cinema (2018) and the author of Shōnen Knife’s Happy Hour: Food, Gender, and Rock-n-Roll (2020). In the 2019-20 academic year, she received a Japan Foundation Fellowship to complete her monograph Searching for Wagner in Japan.
