Assistant Professor
Education: B.Mus, Royal College of Music, UK (Hons) (Piano Performance);
M.Mus, King’s College London (Historical Musicology);
Ph.D, University of Chicago (History and Theory of Music)
Awards: British Academy Award for postgraduate study; Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for graduate study; Pauline Kaschens Fellowship for dissertation support; Arthur J. Komar Award
Courses offered at Wellesley: Music 200 I & II (History of Western Music); Music 235/335 (Topic: The Femme and Her Song); Music 111
Biographical
Information: Research and teaching interests focus on the idea of ornament in musical composition, criticism, and aesthetics; dissertation focused on Ravel’s use of the arabesque as a rhythmic/metric and symbolic gesture. Recent work explores the expressive role of ornament in various contexts: the representation of exotic women in opera; performance; and twentieth-century primitivism. Recent publications include “Debussy’s Arabesque and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912),” twentieth-century music 3/2 (2006), and “Lakmé’s Echoing Jewels,” forthcoming in The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.)
