Publications
“Singing with Whales: Exploring Human and Non-Human Connections.” Society of Ethnomusicology Student News (Summer 2023). https://www.semsn.com/191-comuzzo.
Forthcoming
“From Silence to Song: How Humpback Singing Inspired A New Way of Listening.” In Listening to the Swan Song: Towards a Subjectivity of Non-Human Organisms in Music and (Music-Related) Literature of the Past and Present, edited by Piotr Kociumbas and Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, Imprint of BRILL Deutschland.
“From Whale Songs to Soundwalks: A Path Forward Against Music Exceptionalism,” Ecomusicology Review, 2025
Invited Talks
“Singing and Listening with Whales: Exploring Human and More-Than-Human Musicalities,” University of Bologna (UNIBO), Italy, May 2025
“Listening to Whales: Exploring Ecocentric Activism and Reciprocity through Song,” at the BIOME TRUST in Wellington, Aotearoa (New Zealand), January 2025
“A Sonically Reimagined Silence: How the Discovery of Whale Songs Inspired an Environmental Commitment to the Ocean,” for the ELEMENTS project at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, September 2024
“Queering Whale Songs: Making Waves Through the Anthropocene,” Invited Talk at Mount Holyoke College, April 2024
“Women in Music: Towards Wider Inclusion,” Invited Talk at the International Students & Scholars Office’s International Women’s Day Event, March 2024
“Reflections on the Roots of Gender and Race Discrimination in Western Classical Music: A Vignette,” Academic Conventions and Social Issues in Music at MDEG, UMass Amherst. 2021.
Conferences
“Listening to Whales: Exploring Ecocentric Activism through Sonic Entanglements,” 48th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance, Wellington, New Zealand, January 2025
“Echoes of Change: Humpback Whale Songs as Catalysts of Activism in the Anthropocene,” Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (NECSEM), May 2024
“Singing with Whales: Exploring Human and Non-Human Musicalities,” Lightning Talk at AMS-SMT 2023 Conference in the Ecocriticism Study group, November 2023.
“The Ideal Traumatized Body: Shaping Beauty Standards for Young Women and Genderqueer Performers” within the co-led panel “Surviving Dreams, Living Trauma: The Invisible Barriers That Stand Between Performers and Their Success,” at the Society of Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, October 2023. Panel sponsored by the SEM Section Status of Women (SWW).
3MT Competition, “Fatphobia In Western Classical Music: How Body Discipline and Beauty Standards Shape the Career of Women and Gender Queer Performers,” Brandeis University 2023
“The Voice of the Humpback Whale: Music, Language, or Sound?,” UConn Music Graduate Conference, May 2023.
“‘It’s about damn time’: Body Liberation in Lizzo’s Music,” Themus (The Music Society at Temple) and at the Conference of the International American Society of Popular Music in Minneapolis, 2023
“Finding Freedom in Music Analysis: Positionality and Triple Consciousness,” Lighting Talk at AMS/SMT/SEM 2022 Conference in the “Intersectionality and Analysis” Panel, 2022.
“Beyond Anthropocentrism: Music and Sound as Acts of Care between Humans and Other Animals,” presented at UConn Music Graduate Conference, 2022.
“The Gendered ‘Other’: Female Erotic Sublimation in Ferrara’s Court” presented at Brandeis University Graduate Conference “Illness and Healing: An interdisciplinary Symposium,” 2022.
“Dark Like Me: Meaning and Metaphor in “Dream Variations,” University of Toronto Graduate Music Conference, 2021.