About
I am a musicologist working at
Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before coming to Howard, I was a visiting professor at Roanoke College.
My main research area is French and Italian opera in the long nineteenth century, particularly Massenet, Puccini, Mascagni, and Bizet.
My doctoral dissertation analyzed Massenet’s reception in Milan from 1893 to 1903.
Other research interests include nationalist uses of American folk musics in the 1930s, sequences from the Abbey of St-Denis, and the music of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Publications
Articles and Chapters in Books
“Open-Access Music Journals and the Possibility of Global Dialogue.”
College Music Symposium 61 no. 2 (2021)
Open-Access Music Journals and the Possibility of Global Dialogue[sup]1[/sup] – College Music Symposium
“The Harp, the Lied and Ossianic Narratives in Massenet’s
Werther.”
Nineteenth-Century Music Review, FirstView. DOI:
10.1017/S147940982000004X (2020).
“How
Carmen Became a Repertory Opera in Italy and in Italian.” In
Carmen Abroad:
Bizet’s Opera on the Global Stage, edited by Richard Langham Smith and Clair Rowden (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 94–110.
“The Disappearance of Grand Opera, or How a Genre Leaves the Canon.” In
A-R Music Anthology, ed. James L. Zychowicz (2020).
https://www.armusicanthology.com/ViewerPlus.aspx?&music_id=940
“Final Exam Weighting as Part of Course Design.”
Teaching & Learning Inquiry 6, no.1, 91–103 (2018). DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.6.1.9
“Giuseppe Verdi.” In
A-R Music Anthology, ed. James L. Zychowicz (2017)
https://www.armusicanthology.com/ViewerPlus.aspx?music_id=753
“Massenet’s Italian Trip of 1894 and the Politics of Cultural Translation.” In
Massenet and the Mediterranean World, ed. Simone Ciolfi (Bologna: Ut Orpheus, 2015), 161–71.
Review Essays
Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut (critical edition,
Le opere di Giacomo Puccini)
, edited by Roger Parker.
Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 72, no. 1 (2015), 226–30.
Il Trittico, Turandot, and Puccini’s Late Style, by Andrew Davis.
Indiana Theory Review 29, no. 2 (2011), 105–12.
