Education
PhD, Comparative Studies, Ohio State University
MA, Aesthetics and Politics, California Institute of the Arts
MFA, Jazz Studies, California Institute of the Arts
BM, Jazz Studies, Capital University Conservatory Publications
Book:
Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life
Journal Articles:
“‘I Wanna Be That Cool’: Soccer Mommy’s Big Feelings,”
Journal of Popular Music Studies (forthcoming)
“Race, Gender, and Jazz School: Chord-Scale Theory as White Masculine Technology,”
Jazz and Culture vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 2023).
“Improvisation as Contingent Encounter, Or: The Song of My Toothbrush”, Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation vol.12, no. 2 (2018).
Book Chapters:
“Rancière and Improvisation: Reading Contingency in Music and Politics”,
Rancière and Music, Edited by João Pedro Cachopo, Patrick Nickleson, Chris Stover
Edinburgh University Press).
https://www-jstor-org.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/stable/10.3366/j.ctv125jr5s.15
Public Scholarship:
“Voice, Freedom, Anachronism: On Moten/López/Cleaver,” Cleveland Review of Books (January 13, 2023).
“The Impossibility of Critique: On The French Dispatch and May ’68”, Cleveland Review of Books, December 28, 2021.
“Big Feelings: Feminist Affect in Indie Rock After 2000,”Journal of Popular Music Studies 33, no. 4 (December): 16-22.
“Feeling Spaces and Spatial Feelings: On The Ophelias’ Crocus”, Blog/Los Angeles Review of Books (October 19, 2021).
“Bracing for Impact: Music, Millennials, and What Comes After COVID-19”, Blog/Los Angeles Review of Books (online, May 11, 2020).
“This and The Coming Crisis: Reid Anderson, Dave King, and Craig Taborn’s Golden Valley is Now“, Blog/Los Angeles Review of Books (online, February 3, 2020).
“TiK ToK: Post-Crash Party Pop, Compulsory Presentism and the 2008 Financial Collapse”, Sounding Out! (online: 10.21.2019).
Reviews:
“Reparation as Damage: Review of Patricia Stuelke’s The Ruse of Repair”, boundary 2 online (February 10, 2022).
“Review: Anthony Reed’s Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke University Press), Journal of Popular Music Studies 33, no. 4 (December): 219-222.
“Improvising What?”: A Review of Improvisation and Social Aesthetics, boundary 2 online (October 11, 2017).
