T. Corey Brennan

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T. Corey Brennan
Birth nameTerry Corey Brennan
Also known asCorey Loog Brennan
Born (1959-11-24) November 24, 1959 (age 64)
GenresAlternative rock
Occupation(s)
  • Professor
  • guitarist
  • songwriter

Terry Corey Brennan (born November 24, 1959) is a

US). Under the stage name Corey "Loog" Brennan he was a guitarist and songwriter involved with several bands, including Boston-based bands Bullet LaVolta and The Lemonheads, and the Rome, Italy
-based Superfetazione.

Biography

Brennan was born in 1959 to Terry F. and Colonel David N. Brennan. He married Antonia Catherine Fried, daughter of Charles and Anne Fried, on 5 January 1991.[1]

Brennan was graduated summa cum laude from the

Master of Arts (A.M.) from the University of Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Harvard University in 1990.[2]

Alongside his career as an academic, he has pursued a parallel career as a musician with several bands, playing with the Italian band Superfetazione while at the American Academy in Rome, and Bullet LaVolta while at Harvard. Brennan also worked as a Record Hospital disc jockey at WHRB, the Harvard radio station, where he met Evan Dando of The Lemonheads. Brennan, known in those days as "Corey Loog Brennan", toured with The Lemonheads, opening their shows with his own band, Bullet LaVolta and soon after joined the Lemonheads in 1988. A highly accomplished guitar soloist, he continued touring with them until 1991. During this period, Brennan co-wrote the tracks "Li'l Seed", "Cazzo Di Ferro" and "(The) Door". The latter track formed part of the band's sole session for John Peel's radio show, and on this track Brennan assumed lead vocal duties. The performance led Peel to remark "that's the closest we've come to guitar hero stuff in quite a season".

He assembled a band under the name Loog for a solitary album, Meltdown House, which was released in 1995 on the Netherlands-based Survival Records. Contributors included Clay Tarver and Chris Guttmacher (both ex-Bullet LaVolta), Chris Brokaw (ex-Come and Codeine), Dana Everson, Alexis Jimmy Vira and Imke Wagener (ex-Satellite City and latterly a graphic designer).

He was on the faculty of Bryn Mawr College from 1990 to 2000,[3] until joining the faculty at Rutgers in 2000.

Brennan is the editor of the

National Geographic
.

He also has been working as a disc jockey focusing on

soulful house and salsa music under the name DJ Korenelius.[4]

From July 2009 – 2012 T. Corey Brennan served a three-year term as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome.

Princeton, NJ
with his wife and their three children.

Works

Books

Articles and chapters

Albums

References

  1. ^ "Ms. Fried Weds Corey Brennan" in New York Times, 6 January 1991, accessed 22 October 2006.
  2. ProQuest 303841007
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  3. ^ https://www.flyoverzone.com/interview-with-corey-brennan-phd/
  4. ^ Corey Loog Brennan interview at evandando.co.uk accessed 22 October 2006.
  5. ^ "Rutgers Roman Historian T. Corey Brennan Appointed to American Academy in Rome. Scholar who mixes love of ancient history with alternative rock wins position" https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-roman-historian-t-corey-brennan-appointed-american-academy-rome

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