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I studied french horn performance and music theory at the Eastman School of Music and earned my PhD in music theory from the University of Toronto. My publications (in Music Analysis, Music Theory Online, The Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation, and Music Theory and Analysis) showcase two analytical threads central to my research on musical form: (1) an emphasis on composer- and genre-specific analysis to assess normativity, and (2) the (re)theorization of formal practices by centering composers marginalized in music-theoretical discourse.
Before coming to Laurier, I taught music theory courses at Virginia Tech, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Penn State. I’m looking forward to teaching in the theory department here at Laurier and adapting my materials to meet the needs of the students.
I enjoy working with students one-on-one and have advised several individual projects (e.g., undergraduate theses, graduate-school applications). Don’t hesitate to reach out if you’re looking for guidance on research projects or conference participation.
- 2025. “Recapitulation as Process: Some Nineteenth-Century Recapitulatory Strategies.” Music Analysis 44, no. 3 (https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12249).
- 2021. “Schubert’s Large-Scale Sentences: Exploring the Function of Repetition in Schubert’s First-Movement Sonata Forms.” Music Theory Online 27, no. 3.
- 2018. “Elements of Variation in the First Movement of Schubert’s C-Major Symphony, D. 994/i.” Music Theory and Analysis 5, no. 2: 190–202.
- Forthcoming. “The Medial R2 in the Violin Concerti of Louis Spohr” (collection of analytical essays on the nineteenth-century violin concerto edited by Julian Horton and Peter Smith for Cambridge University Press, expected date of publication November 2026).
- 2025. “Variations In/On Sonata Form.” In The Oxford Handbook of Musical Variation, ed. Jeff Swinkin (Oxford University Press), 405–33.
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