American musicologist
James Rhea Massengale is an American musicologist and former professor at UCLA, who has specialised in the Swedish poets Carl Michael Bellman and Olof von Dalin. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was educated at Yale University (BA 1961), Cambridge University (MA 1968), and Harvard University (PhD in Scandinavian literature 1972). He was a professor at UCLA from 1970 to his retirement in 2006.