All of my research turns on questions of race, gender, and power: describing and undoing the mythologies of white masculinity that have artificially dominated American culture; connecting throughlines between current pop culture and past; and drawing out the undersung and less seen aspects of cultural objects we think we know.

Stay tuned for my latest article in Women & Music; drawn from my dissertation, “Sonic Femininity: The Ronettes’ Revolutionary Gender Performance” traces the Ronettes’ creative transgressiveness on stage and in the recording studio through Ronnie Spector’s interviews and memoirs.

Recent articles include:

“Blurring the Binary: Gender Studies Then and Now.” Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education. Forthcoming.

“Getting Back: The Chiffons’ Sonic Reclamation.” Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, Vol. 3, Number 4 (2022): 394–411.

 “Sonic Femininity: The Ronettes’ Transgressive Gender Performance.” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 25 (2021): 90–109.

“I’ll come back and break your spell”: Narrative Freedom and Genre in The Haunting of Hill House.” Style Vol. 52, No. 3 (2018): 268–286.

“Breaking it Down: Expressing Black Selfhood and Subverting Binaries of Good and Bad in Key & Peele.” In Hero or Villain? Essays on Dark Protagonists of Television collection. Eds. Tamara Girardi and Abigail Scheg. Winter 2017.

“Shaping the Body of Grief: Converging the Personal, Academic, and Visual in Memoir to Create a Broader Way of Mourning.” South Atlantic Review 82.1 (Spring 2017): 22–36.