Most of my published research examines music’s role in the cultural history of childhood, especially in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. My other main interest is in philosophical and analytical questions about dance, movement, and the body. These inquiries are both highly interdisciplinary; I am particularly interested in dialogues between musicology and art history.
At undergraduate level, I have taught analysis, the methodologies papers, and various ‘Topics’ courses on music from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Selected peer-reviewed publications:
‘Debussy’s Pelléas and Symbolist Childhood’, Journal of the American Musicological Society (accepted for publication).
‘Enter Children, with Childhood’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 148/1 (2023), 171-9.
‘(Trans)National Fairy Tale and Romantic Childhood: Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel through its Parisian Reception’, Cambridge Opera Journal, 33/1-2 (2022), 1-21.
‘The Mysterious Souls of Hellé and Debussy’s Toys’, Music & Letters, 102/1 (2021), 80-100.
‘Auden’s imaginary song’, in Delia da Sousa Correa (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 601-8.
‘The Nursery as Circus: Dancing the Childlike to Fauré’s Dolly Suite, 1913’, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 142/2 (2017), 277-325.
