Scholarly Writing & Research
My scholarship focuses on exploring music in its cultural and historical dimensions, particularly in its relationship to the lived experiences of children and the constructed ideologies of childhood. It is my goal to bring musicological research to life in a variety of educational and interdisciplinary settings and to use music as a tool for social justice. My writings and presentations on both primary and additional areas include:
The emergence of children’s music in nineteenth-century Europe
Ideologies of childhood and aetonormativity
Genre studies
Pianism, pedagogy, and socialization
Folklore and children’s culture
Soviet music and culture
Preluding and improvisation
Musical discipline and canon
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
"The Refined Instrument": Piano Pedagogy and the Socialization of Bourgeois Childhood” (Forthcoming, July 2023) Presentation at the Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
“Instrumental Lullabies and 19th Century Representations of Childhood” (Forthcoming, 2023) Article to be published in “Lullabies: Historic and Cultural Circulations, Transmissions of the Intimate” issue of Textes et Contextes.
“The Sacred Looking Glass: Imaginative Children’s Music as Syncretic Nexus” (June, 2022) Chapter in Sacred Contexts in Secular Music of the Long Nineteenth Century, an edited volume organized by the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music.
“The Guiding Hand: Hidden Adult Authority in Children’s Piano Music” (December 2021) Article appearing in Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendliteraturforschung.
“The Piano Bench as Locus of Control: Adult / Child Power Dynamics in Imaginative Children’s Music” (December 2021) Presented at the “Music and Power in the Long 19th Century” Conference planned by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy.
"Equity in the Study of Childhood and Youth" (November 2021) Co-chair, co-presenter, and respondent for the Childhood and Youth Study Group Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society in Chicago, Illinois; individual paper entitled "The Socializing Mirror: Performing Nineteenth-Century Girlhood and Boyhood".
"Ludic Empowerment and Child Agency in Imaginative Children’s Music" (October 2021) A presentation given in an interdisciplinary panel entitled "Structured Interventions in Children's Culture: A Global Perspective" for the Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature in Santiago, Chile.
“Bold Knight and Gentle Maiden: Performing Gender Inequity at the Piano” (November 2020) Presented at the Graduate and Post-Graduate Research Worskhop entitled “Childhood and (In)Equity: Inclusivity and Research on Children’s Literature and Culture” sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
“Performing Girlhood and Boyhood in Nineteenth-Century Piano Music” (October 2020) Presented at the Chapter Meeting of the PSC-AMS.
“The Sounding and Silencing of Musical Childhoods” (August 2019) Panel of musicologists organized for the Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature in Stockholm, Sweden; individually presented paper entitled “Pleading with the Bogeyman: Piano Pedagogy as Socialization”. Also co-organized Professional Mentor/Mentee Lunch of over 200 attendees.
Doctoral Dissertation: The Musicalization of Romantic Childhood: Genre, Power, and Paradox (December, 2018)
Lecture Recital: Schumann’s Kinderszenen and Nachtstücke (February, 2016) Presented at Westmont College with the students of Dr. Steve Hodson.
“Spinning Tales: The Märchenfrau in Nineteenth-Century Music” (October, 2016) Presented at the inaugural meeting of the UCSB Folklore Group.
Lecture Recital: Chopin’s 24 Preludes (February, 2016) Presented at Westmont College with the students of Dr. Steve Hodson.
“Prelude Sets for Every Occasion” for Clavier Companion: The Piano Magazine. Vol. 6, No. 5 (September/October 2014), pp. 42–49.
Subverting Laughter: Re-Imagining George MacDonald’s Victorian Fairy Tale ‘The Light Princess’ (2013–14) (To read and listen, please visit subvertinglaughter.wordpress.com)
Master’s Thesis: The Genesis of the Soviet Prelude Cycle: Shostakovich, Zaderatsky, Zhelobinsky, and Goltz (June, 2012)
“Dehumanization in the Prelude Set of Vsevolod Petrovich Zaderatsky” (Spring, 2012) Presented at the AMS-PNW conference at University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.