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 teach analysis, the methodologies papers, and various ‘Topics’ courses on music from the nineteenth century to the present day.
‘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.
late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French musical culture; the history of childhood; dance and embodiment (especially philosophical questions); the nonhuman turn
