Degree(s)

BA Music (Oakland University)

MM Music History and MM Music Theory (Bowling Green State University)

MA and PhD Musicology (Princeton University)

Research interests

I am a musicologist with interests in German intellectual history and aesthetics from around 1700 to 1950. My current research traces the concept of imagination - as a mental faculty or process - in musical aesthetics, theory, criticism, and practice. I study how the discourse around imagination transferred from general aesthetics, philosophy, and psychology to more specialised studies in music, looking at work on the imagination by some of musicology’s founders, such as Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and Eduard Hanslick in Vienna, and by philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Kant to Adorno.

While my research on the imagination is largely directed towards philosophical and aesthetic discourses, my starting point is always listening to and studying music in its sonic and written forms, and I am excited when I find tangible connections between theory and practice. I have further interests in the music of Johannes Brahms, music analysis, the history of music theory, and - most recently - ancient writings on music.

Teaching Interests

I enjoy teaching topics in music history and analysis, especially within the nineteenth-century, and have experience teaching courses ranging from the history of Western chant to post-tonal analysis to the history of rock and roll at Bowling Green State University and Princeton University.

Awards and prizes

Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Dissertation Fellowship (2021-22)

Fulbright-Mach Award for Doctoral Candidates, University of Vienna (2019-20)

Arthur Mendel Fellowship in Music, Princeton University (2015-2021)

Publications

‘Hearing and Seeing Brahms’s Harps’ in Rethinking Brahms, eds. Nicole Grimes and Reuben Phillips (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Editor/translator with Derek Remeš: Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Abhandlung von der Fuge (Treatise on Fugue) for Between Chopin and Tellefsen. European Music Treatises, The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, Warsaw (2022): https://musictreatises.nifc.pl/en/traktaty/27-abhandlung-von-der-fuge-t…

Other interests

I am a harpsichordist and enjoy playing solo repertoire and chamber music. Lately I have taken up the treble viol for consort playing.