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BOOKS

• The Songs of Clara Schumann. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• The Songs of Fanny Hensel. Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Form, Program, and Metaphor in the Music of Hector Berlioz. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

ARTICLES

• “Women, Song and Subjectivity in the Nineteenth Century,” with Anja Bunzel. In The Cambridge Companion to Women Composers. Edited by Matthew Head and Susan Wollenberg. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• “Softened, Smudged, Erased: Punctuation and Continuity in Clara Schumann’s Lieder.” In Clara Schumann Studies. Edited by Joe Davies. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• “Prolongational Closure in the Lieder of Fanny Hensel,” with Tyler Osborne. Music Theory Online 26/3 (September 2020).
• “Fanny Hensel’s Sechs Lieder op. 9: A Brother’s Elegy.” In Rethinking Mendelssohn. Edited by Benedict Taylor. Oxford University Press, 2020.
• “Fanny Hensel’s Schematic Fantasies; Or, The Art of Beginning.” In Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers. Edited by Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft. Oxford University Press, 2018.
• “Music, Poetry, and Performance in a Song by Maria Schneider.” SMT-V: Videocast Journal of the Society for Music Theory 3/3 (December 2017).
• “Schubert’s Idyllic Periods.” Music Theory Spectrum 39/2 (Fall 2017): 223–46.
• “Song and the Music of Poetry.” Music Analysis 36/3 (October 2017): 315–49.
• “The Fourth Dimension of a Song.” Music Theory Spectrum 37/1 (Spring 2015): 144–53.
• “Sentences with Words: Text and Theme-Type in Die schöne Müllerin.” Music Theory Spectrum 36/1 (Spring 2014): 58–85.
• “Fanny Hensel’s Lied Aesthetic.” Journal of Musicological Research 30/3 (2011): 175–201.
• “Thinking (and Singing) in Threes: Triple Hypermeter and the Songs of Fanny Hensel.” Music Theory Online 17/1 (April 2011).

NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• “The Simple and Stirring Songs of Marie Hinrichs.” Women’s Song Forum, August 2, 2021.
• “Clara Schumann, Reading Against the Grain.” Women’s Song Forum, November 3, 2020.
• Invited guest, Thomas Hampson’s video program World of Song, October 13, 2020.