BA, Rutgers University, 2001; MA, PhD, University of Virginia, 2004, 2007
University of Virginia (2006-2007); University of California, Los Angeles (2007-2008)
Film music, American cinema, performance studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century opera and dance, American popular entertainment
Body Knowledge: Performance, Intermediality, and American Entertainment at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, expected September 2013.
“Dancing the Future, Performing the Past: Isadora Duncan and Wagnerism in the American Imagination,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 65, no. 2 (Summer 2012).
“A Different Kind of Ballet: Rereading Dorothy Arzner’s Dance, Girl, Dance,” in Mediated Moves: A Popular Screen Dance Reader, edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
"Screening the Diva" in The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
“Screening the Diva,” in The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Hilary Poriss and Rachel Cowgill. Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Creating Knowledge: Feminist Scholarship as Activism,” in Leading the Way: Young Women’s Activism for Social Change, edited by Mary K. Trigg. Rutgers University Press, 2009.
“The Call of Salome: American Adaptations and Recreations of the Female Body,” Women and Music 11 (2007), 1-16.
Music, Dance, and Female Creativity in Early Twentieth-Century American Performance
The Society of American Music's 2007 H. Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award Finalist
University of Virginia Dissertation-Year Fellow
University of Virginia Presidential Fellow
The American Musicological Society's Lowens' Award for Graduate Student Research, 2003
Phi Beta Kappa