Alicia Doyle is an Associate Professor and the advisor for the new B.A. program (Music and Cultural Studies). Specializing in medieval liturgical music and 20th-century Latin American popular and art music, Dr. Doyle teaches courses in music history and World music at California State University, Long Beach.

Dr. Doyle received her Bachelors degree in Music Performance (Horn) from the University of Southern California where she studied with James Decker. She received her Masters degree in Musicology from the University of California at Santa Barbara under the advising of Dr. William Prizer. Her thesis focused on Florentine carnival music from 1500-1510. Dr. Doyle's Ph.D. was also from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her dissertation, a study of a tenth-century Aquitanian troper, was completed under the direction of Dr. Alejandro Planchart.

Dr. Doyle arrived at CSULB in 2003 after having spent five years at the University of Texas at El Paso where she was an Assistant Professor of music, teaching courses in music history and literature as well as World Music, Music Appreciation, and several interdisciplinary courses.

An active scholar, in June of 2005 she was invited to Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain to deliver a paper entitled "El Mariachi Canta: Elements of Mexican Sones in the Music of Silvestre Revueltas and El Grupo de los Cuatro." In July of 2006 she will be presenting her work on the role of Northern Spain in the transmission of chant in the tenth and eleventh centuries at the University of Cambridge.