Referred Conference Presentations

2025 (forthcoming). “Coloring Sound: Intertextual Expressions of Music, Meaning, and Identity in Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s Music Videos.” AMS Music and Media Study Group and the SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group joint poster session; Society for Music Theory, annual meeting. November 6–9.

2025 (forthcoming). “Intertextuality in Color: Identity and Meaning-Making in Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s Music Videos.” Music and the Moving Image Conference XXI. New York University, May 30–June 1.

2025.“From Subculture to Pop Culture: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Digital Ecosystems, and the Commodification of Kawaii Aesthetics.” Current Musicology Conference. Columbia University, March 28.

2025. “The Synergy of Sound and Style: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s Audiovisual Persona.” 42nd Annual Music Theory Forum at FSU. Virtual, March 1. Materials can be accessed here.

2024. “‘What’s in an OP?’: Narrative, KonoSuba, and the 3/4 Prechorus.” Society for Music Theory, annual meeting. Jacksonville, FL, November 7–10. Materials can be accessed here. 2024 SMT Student Presentation Award Honorable Mention.

2024. “Beyond the Spotlight: YOASOBI’s ‘Idol” as a Critique of the Japanese Entertainment Industry.” Popular Music Interest Group; Society for Music Theory, annual meeting. Jacksonville, FL, November 7–10. Materials can be accessed here.

2024.”Storytelling in Under Two Minutes: Exploring Narrative and the 3/4 Prechorus in Anime OPs".” Music Theory Southeast and the South Central Society for Music Theory, joint annual meeting. Lipscomb University, March 15–16.

2023. “Grouping Against the Groove: Metrical Dissonance in Hiromi’s ‘Voice.’” Society for Music Theory, annual meeting. Denver, CO, November 9–12. Materials can be accessed here.

UConn Graduate Music Conference. Virtual, May 13.

2023. “Cadence, Harmony, and the ‘Pentatonic Leading Tone’ in Harry T. Burleigh’s Spiritual Arrangements.” Theorizing African American Music Preconference. University of Colorado Denver, November 8. Materials can be accessed here.

2023. “From ‘Cadences of Sorrow’ to ‘Cadences of Joy’ in the Spirituals of Harry T. Burleigh.” Music Theory Society of New York State, annual meeting. New York University, April 1–2. Presentation can be viewed here (recorded live at MTSNYS). Materials can be accessed here.

Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, annual meeting. The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, March 24–25.

CUNY Graduate Students in Music Conference. Virtual, March 24–25.

2022. “Hiromi Uehara’s ‘Pachelbel’s Canon’: A Case Study of Jazz-Classical Hybridity.” Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, annual meeting. Virtual, July 29–30. Presentation can be viewed here; audio transcript can be read here.

2022. “Using Jazz Compositions to Teach the Sentence.” Pedagogy into Practice Conference. Michigan State University, June 2–4. Poster, works cited, and additional materials can be viewed here.

2022. “Nikolai Kapustin’s Bebop Fugue.” Music Theory Society of New York State, annual meeting. Eastman School of Music, April 9–10. Score video with analysis of the fugue from the presentation can be viewed here.

2021. “Jacob Collier’s Wedge Modulations.” Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory, annual meeting. Virtual, April 9–10. Presentation can be viewed here.

Graduate Conference of The Music Society at Temple. Virtual, April 2–3.

McGill Music Graduate Students' Society Symposium. Virtual, March 12–14.

Declined acceptance to the 2022 annual meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State.

Theses (Degree Papers)

2027 (anticipated). [Topic: identity, intermediality, and intertextuality in contemporary J-pop.] Ph.D. dissertation, Eastman School of Music. Committee: Landon Morrison (advisor), Ben Baker (second reader), outside reader TBD.

2023. “Grouping Against the Groove: Metrical Dissonance in Hiromi’s ‘Voice.’” M.A. thesis, Hunter College, CUNY. Committee: Poundie Burstein (advisor), Ryan Keberle (second reader), Keith Waters. Can be read here

2020. “Sentence Structures and the Jazz Canon.” B.S. honors thesis, Hofstra University. Committee: Philip Stoecker (co-advisor) Chandler Carter (co-advisor), David Lalama. Received the 2020 Hofstra University Undergraduate Library Research Award and received the distinction of “high honors” through the Music Department. Can be read here.