EDUCATION
2020 Ph.D., Music Theory, McGill University
* Dissertation: “Sounds, Signals, Signs: Transductive Currents in Post-Spectral Music at IRCAM” (co-advised by Robert Hasegawa and Jonathan Sterne)
** Awarded McGill’s K. B. Jenckes Convocation Prize as “the most outstanding graduate receiving a Ph.D. degree in any discipline in the social sciences and humanities”
2012 Dual M.M., Music Theory and Violin Performance, University of Colorado at Boulder
* Thesis: “Grundgestalt Hierarchy in Alban Berg’s String Quartet, Op. 3” (advised by Keith Waters)
2003 B.A., Music, University of North Carolina at Asheville
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2024– Assistant Professor (tenure eligible), Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
2023–2024 Research Associate, Digital Musical Instrument Design and Analysis, Imperial College London
2022–2023 Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Music, Harvard University
2021–2022 Lecturer, Department of Music, Harvard University
2019–2021 College Fellow, Department of Music, Harvard University
2015–2018 Lecturer, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
AREAS OF RESEARCH
music and media theory; contemporary music analysis; popular music culture; micro-politics of (machine) listening; sound studies; science and technology studies; critical organology; sketch studies; ethnography; timbre; microtonality; sound art
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Courses
History of Music Theory (Eastman; to be taught Spring 2025)
Theorizing Popular Music and Media (Eastman; Fall 2024)
Topic in Non-Tonal Music and Analysis (Eastman; Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
Instruments, Interfaces, and Infrastructures (Harvard; Fall 2022).
Popular Music Analysis (Harvard; Fall 2021).
Timbre at the Crossroads (Harvard; Fall 2020).
Analyzing Musical Media (Harvard; Fall 2019).
Graduate Musicianship (Harvard; Spring 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023).
Undergraduate Courses
Musicianship and Analysis IV: From 1890 to Present (Eastman; Fall 2025)
Musicianship and Analysis IV (Honors): From 1890 to Present (Eastman; Spring 2025)
Sound Studies in Theory and Practice (Harvard; Fall 2021).
Theory I at (Harvard; Spring 2021, 2022, 2023).
Tonal Analysis (Harvard; Fall 2019).
Past Experience as Instructor of Record (McGill University)
Introduction to Research Methods in Music (Fall 2016, 2017).
The Art of New Music (Spring 2018, Summer 2018, team-taught with composer James Rubino).
Popular Music After 1945 (Fall 2017, team-taught with musicologist Eric Smialek; Spring 2017, sole instructor).
Basic Materials of Western Music (Fall 2015, Spring 2017).
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