MY SCHOLARSHIP
My scholarly pursuits broadly focuses on children's media and film music, in particular the musical framing of archetypal characters and their societal implications. I am fascinated by the influencing relationships between adaptations of artistic mediums and how, in spite of multiple interpretations, generate similar sonic ideologies for its material. My writings and presentations include:
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Musical adaptations of children's literature
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20th century music and national ideology
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Music and animation
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Gender studies in cinema
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American musical theatre
Publications:
Forthcoming Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts
2024 “Lost Without a Cue: The Progression of Music and Masculinity in Detective Film Noir,” Music and the Moving Image 17 no. 1.
Research Guides and Finding Aids
2023 “Children's Literature." Harry Ransom Center, April 2.
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Book Reviews
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2024 "BRITISH AND AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE EXCHANGES IN THE WEST END (1924-1970): THE"AMERICANIZATION” OF DRURY LANE (2022) by Arianne Quinn Johnson, International Studies in Musical Theatre. Forthcoming.
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2023 “Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets (2021) by Sophia Redfern,” Bulletin of the Society for American Music L no.1: 13-14.
2021 “The Letters of Cole Porter (2019) by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh,” Bulletin of the Society for American Music XLVII no. 2: 7-8.
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
2023 “How Music Promoted the Hollywood System.” Ransom Center Magazine. TBA.
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2023 “The Knickerbocker Theater Collapse.” Ransom Center Magazine, March 10.
Select Presentations:
2024 "The Glory of Everything" Arcadian Melodies in Charlotte's Web (1973)," Children's Literature Association National Conference, May 26.
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2023 “From Homesick to Lovesick Blues: An Examination of Hollywood’s An American in Paris Ballet (1951),” Music and the Moving Image, New York, May 27.
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2023 “It’s a Small World: The Advent of Global Disneyfication,” National Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, April 5.
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2022 “The Hums of Childhood: Nostalgic Evocations in A.A. Milne’s and Harold Fraser-Simson’s Hums of Pooh (1929),” National Meeting of the American Musicological Society, New Orleans, November 10-13.
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2022 “Lost Without a Cue: The Progression of Music and Masculinity in Detective Film Noir,” Spring Meeting of the South-West Chapter of the American Musicological Society, April 9.
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2022 “Devising Accessible Rehearsal and Production Practices in kin • song: ode to disability ancestors,” Practice/Production Symposium at the Mid Atlantic Theatre Conference, March 4.
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2020 “Three Men and a Little Painting: Music, Masculinity and Obsession in Laura,” Fall Meeting of the Pacific South-West Chapter of the American Musicological Society, October 24.
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2020 “Modern Melodies for the Middle Ages: The Use of Parody in Alan Menken’s TV Musical Galavant,” Song, Stage and Screen XV, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, June 18-20 (abstract accepted).