I have presented original research on music in film and television. If you would like additional information beyond the titles listed here, please contact me using my contact page.
2024
Musicalizing the Twenty-First Century: Television, Musical Theater, and the TV Musical Series Representing Histories: The Past in/of Musical Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
“A last dance before the feast”: Timbral Alteration and Vampiric Love in Interview with the Vampire (2022–Present) and First Kill (2022) Co-presented with Jacy Pedersen; Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Munich, Germany
“I Heard Your Hearts Dancing”: Timbral Alteration and Vampiric Love In Interview With the Vampire(2022–Present) and First Kill (2022) Co-presented with Jacy Pedersen; Music and the Moving Image, New York University, New York, NY
The Telephone in the Television Musical Series Roundtable: “Telephone Voices in Screen Representation,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Sound and Music SIG, virtual
“Real”-izing Process: Production, Narrative Space, and the Broadway Musical in Smash (2012–2013) Society for American Music, Detroit, MI
2022
“I find it sad it isn’t close to you”: Music of Love and Despair in Ammonite (2020) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Co-presented with Jacy Pedersen, 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society, School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece
Bursting into Song in the Thirteenth Century: The Onion-Layered Parodies in Galavant (2015-2016) 21st International Conference Association of RIdIM, Národní Muzeum, Prague, Czech Republic
“If she’s singing it, she’s feeling it”: Portraying Mental Health and Illness Through Song in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015-2019) and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (2020-2021) Critical Studies in Television Conference, Edge Hill University, Lancashire, UK (virtual)
“I chose to feel”: Timbre, Love, and Anguish in Lesbian Romance Dramas Co-presented with Jacy Pedersen, Music and the Moving Image, New York University, New York, NY (virtual)
“I Don’t Want to Feel This Way”: Depicting Mental Health and Illness in the Television Musical Series Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL (virtual)
2021
“I want this to be different; our different”: Music of Love and Despair in Ammonite (2020) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Co-presented with Jacy Pedersen, British Audio-Visual Research Network Colloquia (virtual)
Old Musicology, Young Musicology: Learning Through Intergenerational Research Co-presented with James Deaville, Teaching Music History Conference (virtual)
Seed Songs and Witches’ Work: The Voice as a Source of Power in Motherland: Fort Salem (2020-present) Music and the Moving Image, New York University, New York, NY (virtual)
2020
“I’d give my soul for continued youth…”: Frédéric Chopin, Moral Descent, and Thematic Transformation in Herbert Stothart’s Score for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) The American Musicological Society, Minneapolis, MN (virtual)
“’Cause When You Call Her Crazy, You’re Just Calling Her in Love! [Blam!]”: Towards an Understanding of Rachel Bloom’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Stephen Sondheim’s Passion Song, Stage, and Screen, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH*
“Oh, Great, Another Musical Number!”: Determining Disney’s Self-Parody in Galavant (2015-2016) and Enchanted (2007) Music and the Moving Image, New York University, New York, NY (virtual)
Westworld (2015-present) and Crazy Rich Asians (2018): Exploring the Music of Asian and Asian American Identity Formation Society for American Music, Minneapolis, MN (virtual)
2019
Ambiguity and Intertextuality in the Music of “Outlander (2014 – Present)” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Congress on the Enlightenment, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ambiguity and Intertextuality in the Music of “Outlander (2014-present)” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Denver, CO
2017
Ambiguity and Intertextuality in the Music of “Outlander (2014)” Music and the Moving Image, New York University, New York, NY
2016
Scoring for Gender in “The Hobbit” Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Scoring for Gender in “The Lord of the Rings” Music and the Moving Image, New York University, New York, NY
2015
The Effects of Heartbeats in Film Music Psi Chi Research Conference, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
* Cancelled due to COVID-19
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