Curriculum Vitae
(This page only includes selected highlights from the full CV)
Professional Appointments
2023-present
2020-2021
Lecturer in the Writing Program
Princeton University
Visiting Researcher (DAAD)
Beethoven-Haus Archiv, Bonn
Education
2019-2024
PhD in Musicology, Department of Music, Princeton University
Dissertation: "Love, Lieder, and the Gendered Poetics of Musical Transcendence, c.1780-1850"
Committee: Wendy Heller (advisor), Gavin Steingo, Laura Tunbridge (Oxford), and Stephen Rodgers (Oregon)
2016-2019
MA in Musicology, Department of Music, Princeton University
2012-2013
MSt in Music (Musicology), Wadham College, University of Oxford
2012-2013
BA (Hons) in Music, Department of Music, University of Bristol
Publications
2026
2024
“All About Lux.” Journal of Popular Music Studies, forthcoming June 2026.
“Speech and Silence: Encountering Flowers in the Lieder of Clara Schumann.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review 21/1 (2024): 44-75.
2020
“Beethoven 1806. By Mark Ferraguto.” in Eighteenth-Century Music 17/2 (2020): 265-267.
2019
“Intimacy, Performance, and the Lied in the Early Nineteenth Century. By Jennifer Ronyak.” Music & Letters 100/3: 557-560.
For works-in-progress see Research.
Grants and Awards
2024
2023
Summer Research Grant to Vienna, University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University
Graduate School Teaching Award, Princeton University (WRI189 Sound and the City)
2022
Quin Morton Teaching Fellowship, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University
2020
One-Year Grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Conference Award to present at the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music from the Handel Institute, London
2016
Roy Hutchingson Welch Fellowship in Music, Department of Music, Princeton University
Dean of the Graduate School Grant, Princeton University
2013
2011
2010
Vicky Philo Travel Grant, Wadham College, University of Oxford
Dean of Arts Commendation for Excellent Results, University of Bristol
Dean of Arts Commendation for Excellent Results, University of Bristol
Courses Taught
"Love Songs" (FRS 181), First-Year Seminar, Princeton University (Fall 2025)
"Sound and the City" (WRI 189/190), Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University (2022-present)
"Music Appreciation" (MUSC-102), Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, Accredited by Raritan Valley Community College (Spring 2022)
"Species Counterpoint" (MUS 205), Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, Princeton University (Fall 2019)
"Introduction to Music" (MUS 103), Teaching Assistant, Department of Music, Princeton University (Spring 2019)
“Techniques and Analysis”, “Orchestration” and “Composition”, Mansfield College Visiting Students Programme, University of Oxford (AY2014-2015)
Select Conference Presentations
“Who Owns this Song? Translating Musical Property in Nineteenth-Century London”. Presented at AMS/SMT Joint Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, 6-9 November, 2025.
“Who Owns a Song? Copyrighting Foreign Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain”. Presented at the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Wayne State University, Detroit, June 25-27, 2025.
“Song Translation as Prosthesis: Singing Goethe in Nineteenth-Century Britain”. Presented at the Cascade Song Festival, Eugene OR, January 23-26, 2025.
“Performing Blindness and the Anxiety of Visuality in the Career of Maria Theresia Paradis”. Presented at AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, November 9-12, 2023.
“Musicality, Disability, and Gender in the Career of Maria Theresia von Paradis”. Presented at The Fourth International Conference on Women’s Work in Music, Bangor University, September 4-6, 2023.
“Rapture, Desire, and Irony in Hoffmann’s Writing on Beethoven’s Instrumental Music”. Presented at the Ninth International New Beethoven Research Conference, New Orleans, November 9, 2022.
“Singing the Metaphysics of Musical Transcendence”. Presented at the Spring Meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of AMS, May 7, 2022.
“‘Know’st Thou the Land?’: Beethoven’s ‘Englished’ Lieder and the Borders of Song”. Presented at XVII. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Universität Bonn, September 28 – October 1, 2021.
“Beethoven’s ‘Englished’ Lieder and the Borders of Song”. Presented at 57th Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Newcastle University, September 14-16, 2021.
“Laura betet: Mediating Sound in Settings of Matthisson’s ‘Die Betende’”. Presented virtually at AMS Annual Meeting, November 7-8 and 14-15, 2020.
“Was weinst du, Blümlein? - Clara Schumann’s Sechs Lieder von Jucunde, op. 23, and Hearing the Language of Flowers.” Presented at Clara Schumann (née Wieck) and her World, International Bicentenary Conference, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, June 15–16, 2019
Invited Talks
“Maria Theresia Paradis and Eighteenth-Century Fictions of Blindness”. Presented as part of the Artsong and Gender in Dialogue online lecture series, January 12, 2026.
“Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis and Audiovisual Cultures of the Eighteenth Century”. Given at the Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music Online Forum, October 1, 2024.
“The Irony of Musical Transcendence in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Kreisleriana”. Invited lecture for Body and Mind Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany, July 2022.
“‘Know’st Thou the Land?’: Beethoven’s ‘Englished’ Lieder and the Borders of Song” presented at the Musicology/Sound Studies Colloquium Series at Universität Bonn, June 9, 2021.
“Clara Schumann and the Language of Flowers” Presented at the Lunchtime Fellows’ Series at Mathey College, Princeton University, September 25, 2019.
Public Musicology (Selected Media)
Lecture Recital.
“‘I am the angel of sweet harmony’: Paradis between Fact and Fiction”, given at Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture before and after Braille,, Mount Holyoke College, MA, November 22-24, 2024. Available online here.
Online Exhibition.
“James Lyon: The Search for America’s First Composition”. An online essay-exhibition for Princeton University Libraries. https://library.princeton.edu/jameslyon/
Program Notes.
Princeton University Concerts
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"Beethoven at 250" (2020)
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"England's Green and Pleasant Land" (2017)
Committee Service
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AI Committee, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University (2026-)
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Curriculum Committee, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University (2025-)
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Conference Co-Organizer, Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture before and after Braille, a Bicentenary Symposium, November 22-23, 2024 (Mount Holyoke College and online)
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Wellness Working Group, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University (2024-2025)
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Graduate Student Committee, Department of Music, Princeton University (2021-2022)
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Program Committee, Within & Without: Les Six at 100, Princeton University, January 16-18, 2020.
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Musicology Colloquium Series, Department of Music, Princeton University (2018-2019)
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LGBT Advisory Board (Elected Link Officer), University of Oxford (2015-2016)
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Organizing Committee, University of Bristol Music Festival (2009-2012)