PhD Candidate, Musicology
Supervisor: Lloyd Whitesell
Research Interests
LGBTQ Studies
Word and Music Studies
Biography and Historiography
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Music
Academic Background
MA in Music History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2013)
BA in Music (double bass) and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (2011)
Publications
“The Secret Life of Rosa Newmarch: Innuendo and Musical Biography, ca. 1900-1915.” Musique et pédagogie 30, no. 3 (Spring 2016).
“Mälzel and Mechanical Music in Beethoven’s Vienna.” Keyboard Perspectives 7 (2014).
Conference Presentations
“Rosa Newmarch, Tchaikovsky, and Queering Musical Listening in the 1900s.” First Annual Queer Research Colloquium. April 2016. Institute for the Study of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminism, McGill University.
“The Secret Lives of Music Critics: Translating Queer Musical Identities in Early Twentieth-Century British Music Appreciation.” Exploring Queer Cultures and Lifestyles in the Creative Arts in Britain, c. 1885-1967. March 2016. London College of Fashion.
“The Influence of French Enlightenment Philosophy and Politics on La Grotta di Trofonio.” Music Graduate Society Symposium. March 2014. McGill University.
Awards
Concours de vulgarisation (2016), Société québécoise de recherche en musique
Prix du public (with Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, 2016), Société québécoise de recherche en musique