Richard Ashley

Ric Ashley is an associate professor of Music and Cognitive Science at Northwestern University. His publications deal primarily with the nature of expressive musical performance, and he is President-Elect of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition and on the editorial board of the journal Music Perception. In addition to his faculty duties, Dr. Ashley serves part-time as a campus staff member for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, working with the graduate and medical students at Northwestern. In his work with InterVarsity, he is especially interested in the issues of vocation and calling, human creativity, and the place of evangelical Christianity in the academic discourse of the university.