About

I’m a music scholar at the University of Alabama with research interests in the analysis and history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera. My current research focuses on the social and expressive use of musical schemas in Italian opera. Ongoing research projects include a series of articles on issues of pleasure and enjoyment in the operas of Gioachino Rossini, the analysis of secco recitative, musical form in early two-tempo arias, as well as music and music-making in the nineteenth-century American South.