About

Biography

I received my undergraduate degree from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia and Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Texas at Austin under the late K.M Knittel.

Grounded in cultural and gender studies, my research focuses on nineteenth-century German concert culture and early twentieth-century country music and blues women. I have presented portions of my work at international, national, and regional conferences of the American Musicological Society, the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, and Delta State University’s International Conference on the Blues. My work has been published in Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and Hidden Harmonies: Women and Music in Popular Entertainment.

Before coming to the University of North Texas, I designed and taught courses across the general education curriculum at Loyola University New Orleans. My classes included topics on gender and sexuality, American popular music, and music outside the traditional canon. I am very interested in innovative pedagogical methods and am especially excited about assignments that democratize creativity—assignments that ask non-majors to make and perform music. To this end, I recently published a book chapter in Teaching Difficult Topics: Reflections from the Undergraduate Music History Classroom.

Teaching

Music history Pedagogy

As a principal lecturer in music history, I am responsible for overseeing, teaching, designing, and revising our University of North Texas (UNT) Core music history non-major courses. These courses serve non major, major, and minor student populations. I teach three courses each fall and spring semester and, depending on enrollment demands, summer and winter session online courses. In my position, I also mentor our graduate students in music history pedagogy.

Research

Music History Pedagogy, Gender, Iconography

My research focuses on music history pedagogy, nineteenth-century Germany, and early twentieth-century American country music and blues women.

Interests

Music History Pedagogy
Non-Major Teaching
Gender
Iconography
Clara Schumann
Country Music & Blues Women