Nick Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. He holds a B.S. in Astronomy/Physics and a B.A. in Music from the University of Virginia. His dissertation explores musical performance in anime and its role in constituting anime’s transmedial worlds. Recent work on Studio Ghibli has been presented at Music and the Moving Image and the American Musicological Society, and is forthcoming in JAMS (Journal of Anime and Manga Studies). An occasional medievalist, Nick works as a Student Editor for the Middle English Text Series (METS) and at the Rossell Hope Robbins Library. He received the 2021 Jerald C. Graue Fellowship for his translation and commentary on the motet Reverenter Veneremur/Venerandum Crucis Lignum, which he presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Nick is serving as President of the Eastman Graduate Musicology Association for the 2025-26 academic year.