COURSES TAUGHT
Here are some of the courses I recently taught, with syllabi linked.
Music and Laughter
An undergraduate lecture course exploring both musical jokes and parody and the idea of laughter itself as a sonic and bodily expression that is imitated, and represented in music.
Musician Biopics
A seminar on the cinematic tropes for the depiction of musical creativity in the past 100 years
Music and the History
of Feminism
A course on the relationship between music and feminist protests, the representation of femininity, and the critique and disruption of gendered identities in the past 100 years.
Sirens in Twentieth-Century Music
A seminar about the figure of the Siren in literary and musical modernism
Introduction to
Music History
A lecture course introducing students to the critical study of musical historical sources, debates, and performances.

The Piano in Pieces
A seminar in experimental piano music for 30 undergraduate piano students; co-taught with Myra Melford