Academic History
University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D., Music Theory
Yale University - Summer Abroad (Salzburg, Austria)
University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A., Music Theory and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A., Music Composition
Academic Focus
Post Tonal Music Analysis
Tonal Analysis
20th-Century Music
Art History and Theory
Interests
Analytic Methodology in Music
Queer Theory and History
Courses Taught
Music Theory 1, 2 and 3
Musicianship 1 and 2
Literature and Analysis of Music Since 1900
Music Appreciation, “Music and Meaning”
Humanities Core I: “Histories of the Present"
Humanities Core II: Queer History in Popular Music
Humanities Core III: Queer History of California
Scripps College Academy
Selected Research and Publications
“On the Analytical Tradition of Schoenberg’s Erwartung (Op. 17).” Indiana Theory Review 34 (2017)
Form and Process in Music,1300-2014: An Analytic Sampler. Co-Editor (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016)
“Common-Tone Tonality and Schubert’s Ihr Bild: a Musical Parergon.” Ars Lyrica: Journal of the Lyrica Society for Word Music Relations. Vol 18 (2009)