Tiffany Naiman is the Director of Music Industry Programs and an Assistant Teaching Professor at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, as well as a lecturer in the Musicology department. She is a scholar of popular music, temporality, and disability studies. Currently, she serves as co-chair of the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society. Tiffany has developed specialization as a David Bowie scholar, and her work is published in Blackstar Rising, Purple Rain (Duke University Press, 2024), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis (Bloomsbury, 2019), David Bowie: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2015), and Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Tiffany is also a DJ and electronic musician performing under the moniker NeonGray, the experimental film and music Senior Programmer for Outfest Los Angeles, the manager of musical artist Cusses, and the creator of a multiplicity of club nights.