Résumé
updated 12.2024
full CV available via GitHub
Education
Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
PhD, Music Theory – Aug 2022-Present
Washington University (St. Louis, MO)
MA, Music Theory – Aug 2020-May 2022
Anderson University (Anderson, IN)
BA, Music Theory – Aug 2016-May 2020
Research Projects
“The Sound of The Underground”: Distinguishing Alternative Identity in Rap’s Contemporary Moment
MA Thesis – April 2022
Known Unknowns: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Musical Practice in Contemporary Underground Hip-Hop
PhD Dissertation – In Progress
Conference Presentations
Glissant’s Opacity, ELUCID’s I Told Bessie, and the Politics of Legibility in Contemporary Underground Hip-Hop
IASPM International Conference – June 2023
Form as Flow(, Layering,) and Rupture in Contemporary Underground Hip-Hop
Theorizing African American Music Preconference – November 2023
Sampling(,) Earthseed: Dynamic Musicopoetics and Butlerian Themes in Two Collaborative Works by Nicole MitchellSociety for American Music Conference – March 2024