Publications
Forthcoming
- “Sounding alongside Whales: A Deep Appreciation of Whale Songs and New Frontiers in Human-Whale Connections.” 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
Published
- “Singing with Whales: Exploring Human and Non-Human Connections.” Society of Ethnomusicology Student News (Summer 2023). https://www.semsn.com/191-comuzzo.
Invited Talks
- “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.
