I am a musicologist, Chair of the Thomas Hunter Honors Program and Lecturer in the Music Department at Hunter College of CUNY, where I teach core major undergraduate and graduate courses and those of my own design such as Rethinking Opera: Gender, Race, Class; Musical Quotation and Allusion; and Women and Power in Mozart’s Operas. On the latter, my ASECS presentation, “Fallacies of Context and Change,” was described as “a brilliant critique of contemporary engagement with Mozart’s women” in the conference review for Eighteenth-Century Music (March 2020).

In my research and teaching I focus on a nuanced approach to thorny issues of complicity, race, and gender in canonic operas to show how a fuller view of the context, then and now, can help us to confront more directly and productively the controversial aspects of their stories. My book on those topics, Teaching Opera and Musical Theater with Intention, co-author, Elizabeth Wells, published by Routledge (2026), garnered critical endorsements: “A fascinating and important project.”—Kunio Hara, Associate Professor of Music History, University of South Carolina, cultural consultant Houston Grand Opera, featured speaker Boston Lyric Opera’s Butterfly Process. “This book teaches the controversies surrounding some of the most popular works encountered on Broadway, in the opera house, and in music history courses.  Packed with critical insight and practical advice, it will be an indispensable resource for teachers and performers alike.”—Richard Will, Professor of Music, University of Virginia, author of “Don Giovanni” Captured: Performance, Media, Myth (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
I am also working on a project focusing on performance and scholarship, with emphasis on recent interactions among scholars and practitioners that point to exciting paths forward.

Growing from this work is my invited chapter, “The Dialogue as Indispensable,” in The Cambridge Companion to Mozart’s The Magic Flute, edited by Jessica Waldoff, 2023. I have also been invited to join the Board of the Mozart Society of America and the pre-concert lecturers for Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series.