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I hold a PhD in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago and an MA in Musicology from Tufts University. My research and teaching are centered on examining how music reflects and alters human experiences across media environments (like cinema, sound reproduction, and neural networks) and historical periods (from the 18th century to modern times).
In my teaching, I create interdisciplinary spaces that connect music studies with the broader humanities, social sciences, and sciences. At UChicago, I taught courses in the Music, Civilizations, History, and Digital Media departments. These ranged from large historical surveys for music majors, introductory classes for non-majors, analysis seminars, writing workshops, and graduate-level pedagogy instruction.
Outside academia, I am currently enrolled in the Bachelor of Education program at Laurier for Junior and Intermediate teaching. I am also a skilled jazz pianist, trumpeter, and swing dancer and I teach East Coast Swing and Lindy Hop in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.
My research focuses on the musical history of artificial intelligence since the Enlightenment, examining how spectacles of mechanical music, from 18th-century automata to modern neural networks, were perceived to exhibit human traits such as intelligence, language, creativity, and consciousness.
- Franke Institute for the Humanities Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Chicago (2021)
- François Furet Travel Grant, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (2018)
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