Izzy Fincher is a writer and feminist researcher based in Wisconsin, USA. She is a master’s degree candidate and teaching assistant in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research interests include transnational feminism, queer theory, speculative fiction, popular music, and cultural studies.

Izzy graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Journalism and BM in Music Performance from the University of Colorado Boulder. She was named the College of Media, Communication and Information’s William W. White Outstanding Graduate and the College of Music’s Outstanding Graduating Senior. Other awards include the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation’s Gerke Collegiate Award and the Presser Foundation’s Undergraduate Scholar Award.

Izzy’s undergraduate honors thesis, “An examination of mainstream media’s treatment of female guitarists,” has been published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies and featured in Guitar World, Shesaid.so, and Loud Women. She has presented her research at the PopCon/IASPM-US Joint Conference, International Conference on Gender and Sexuality, the Guitar Foundation of America Conference, and the International Communication Association Conference.

Her arts writing and criticism has been featured in the Guitar Foundation of America’s Soundboard magazine; the CU Independent, CU Boulder’s award-winning student newspaper; and Sharps & Flatirons, Boulder’s independent classical music blog.