Education

Ph.D. in Musicology, Louisiana State University, 2019.
Minor: Comparative Literature

M.M. in Musicology, University of Miami, 2014.

B.M. in Composition, summa cum laude, Georgia Southern University, 2012.

Publications

Articles
“The World Ear Project (1970–87): Soundscapes, Politics, and the Genesis of Acoustic Ecology.” Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture 3, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 58–75.

“The Curious Case of Anthony Gnazzo: A Lost American Experimentalist,” Tempo 74, no. 294 (October 2020): 39–47.

“A Portrait of John Adams as a Young Man: The 1970s Juvenilia.” American Music 37, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 229–56.

“Beckett’s Theater of Punishment: Act Without Words I as Panopticon.” Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui 29, no. 2 (2017): 417-27 .

Book Chapters
“‘My musical susceptibility seems all concentrated in my arse’: Samuel Beckett’s Music Criticism.” In Le Style de Samuel Beckett au miroir épistolaire. 1929-1989, edited by Karine Germoni, Pascale Sardin, and Llewellyn Brown (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022), 113-25.

“Politics and Protest.” In Arvo Pärt’s White Light: Media, Culture, Politics, edited by Laura Dolp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 154-78.

Reviews
“Douglass Merrell, Umberto Eco, The Da Vinci Code, and the Intellectual in the Age of Popular Culture.” The Journal of Popular Culture 52, no. 1 (February 2019): 216–19.

“John McGrath, Samuel Beckett, Repetition and Modern Music.” Irish Studies Review 26, no. 4 (December 2018): 593–94.

“Marino Formenti (pf), Liszt Inspections, Kairos 13292, 2015.” Nineteenth Century Music Review 15, no. 1 (April 2018): 135-37.

“Richard Strauss, Elektra. Patrice Chéreau (dir.), Esa-Pekka Salonen (cond.), Orchestre de Paris.” Nineteenth Century Music Review 14, no. 1 (August 2017): 279-81.

“Catherine Laws, Headaches Among the Overtones: Music in Beckett/Beckett in Music.” The Harold Pinter Review: Essays on Contemporary Drama 1, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 146-48.

“Sara Jane Bailes and Nicholas Till (eds.), Beckett and Musicality.” Journal of Beckett Studies 26, no. 1 (April 2017): 134-38.

“Making the Right Choices: A John Cage Centennial Celebration.” American Music 31, no. 3 (Fall 2013): 375-77.

“Miami, New World Center: John Adams’s Absolute Jest.” Tempo 67, no. 264 (April 2013): 74.

“Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall: John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary.” Tempo 66, no. 262 (October 2012): 49-50.

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