I am Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. I previously held a full-time appointment at New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
My research interests include fugue and counterpoint, Russian music theroy, Schenkerian analysis, and music theory pedagogy. More recent projects focus on DEI efforts in music theory pedagogy and the analysis and promotion of music by women composers. I received the Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award (2013) for my work developing Schenkerian voice-leading paradigms in fugue expositions; this paper was later published in Theory and Practice (2014). Two additional studies involving Schenkerian Analysis of Bach fugues appear in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy (2019) and Music Theory Online (2020). Recent publications on various topics in music theory pedagogy appear in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy (2016; 2019), The Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory (2018), and BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute (2019).
My teaching has been recognized on several occasions. I am the recipient of the NYU Steinhardt Teaching Excellence Award (2018), the University of Rochester’s Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student (2010), and the Eastman School of Music’s Teaching Assistant Prize (2008). I previously served as a board member for the Music Theory Society of New York State, and co-editor of Theory and Practice. I am currently editor of the Society for Music Theory (SMT) Newsletter and secretary of the Music Theory Society of New York State.