I’m a music scholar at Oregon State University. My research examines the social and expressive uses of musical conventions in Italian-language opera. I’m currently working on a series of articles that theorize the rhetorical function of musical annoyance in a broad spectrum of styles from the eighteenth century to the present, ranging from Haydn piano trios & Rossini operas to television jingles & TikTok dance videos. I also have secondary interests in the analysis of secco recitative, musical form in early two-tempo arias, and the Second Viennese School.
My publications appear in the Journal of Music Theory, Music Theory Spectrum, Music Theory Online, Indiana Theory Review, Intégral, and the edited collection Analyzing Mozart’s Operas (Peeters Publishers). My article “Galant Recitative Schemas,” co-authored with Paul Sherrill, received the David Kraehenbuehl Prize and the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Award.
