Humans and whales through sound
Ecocentrism and kinship in Music
Fat phobia in western classical music
The canon, capitalism, and western classical music
Academic Service & Leadership
In addition to my research, I actively contribute to the broader interdisciplinary community. Beginning in 2025, I will join the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Studies as a Visiting Scholar, where I will pursue dual research projects and contribute to the Renaissance of the Earth Project. I also serve as Secretary for the Ecocriticism Study Group and as Student Board Member of the Journal of Musicology Pedagogy at the American Musicological Society. Finally, I am currently the Music Scholar for the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University.
For the academic year of 2023-2024, Anna Valcour and I pioneered an interdisciplinary writing group that met every Monday for the whole day to work together, but individually, on our writing. It was a powerful experience and it fostered a great sense of community across departments, and we all had great successes, holding each other accountable, and dedicating a full day of writing a week.
My formal qualifications
I hold Masters in Musicology from Brandeis University and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Master in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality from Brandeis University. Previous to my academic work, I pursued a career as a performer and I completed a Graduate Performance Diploma in Violin from Boston Conservatory at Berklee, under the guide of Marcus Placci, and a Violin Diploma from Arrigo Boito Conservatory, Parma, Italy (BM Equivalent).
Recently I also attended the Marine Bioacoustics Summer School Program SeaBASS 2024, in New Hampshire; and courses in Digital Publishing and more at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Victoria.
2023
Black Sexual Politics (Prof. Ohman)
Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Prof. Garvey)
Feminist Theory and Methodology (Prof. Luis)
2022
Topics in Analysis of Contemporary Music (Prof. Ackley)
Political Economies of Music (Prof. Garvey)
The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas (Prof. Fray)
Technologies of the Folk (Prof. Ackley)
Gender, Class, & Race (Prof. Hansen)
2021
Introduction to Musicology (Prof. Frey and Prof. Desmond)
Music and Patronage (Prof. Garvey)
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Research Seminar (Prof. Chaudhry)
Cognitive and Social Psychology of User-Centered Design (Prof. Lumerman)
Music History Pedagogy (Prof. Knyt)
19th&20th Century Symphony (Prof. Ritchey)
2020
Post-Tonal Theory (Prof. White)
Bibliography (Prof. Ricciardi)
Research in Music History (Prof. Ritchey)
The Italian Madrigal (Prof. Ricciardi)
2019
Entrepreneurship in Music (Prof. Ritchey)
The History of Styles in Western Music (Prof. Ritchey)
2020
Research Assistant in Music and the Humanities
Department of Music Theory, UMass Amherst
- Assistant to Professor Miriam Piilonen, assisting with reading, scholarly writing, and discussion support
Research Assistant for “Tasso in Music Project”
Department of Music History, UMass Amherst
- Assistant to Professor Emiliano Ricciardi, proofreading text underlay of musical editions (tassomusic.org)
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