Jeremy Francoeur

PhD Student, Musicology
Office: TC 335
Email: jfranco8@uwo.ca

Biography

Jeremy Francoeur is a musicology PhD student at the University of Western Ontario. His research concerns the impact of the internet age and its technologies on music making and community-building, with a focus on queerness, self-identity, and creativity as resistance. He is the recipient of Clark University’s 2022 Manero Prize for Musical Scholarship for his honors thesis on the hyperpop microgenre and its relation to queerness. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Music Technology from Clark University in 2022, graduating summa cum laude and with highest honors. He received his Master of Music from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2025, completing a thesis on the internet-imagined film Goncharov as a musical representation of online counterculture.

His current research concerns the connection between artifice and online art, analyzed through the new media framework of remediation. Topics of interest include unfiction, meme music, AI music, and the performance of celebrity online. Outside of academia, he teaches courses on audio production and is a private voice instructor.

Website: jfrancoeur.neocities.org