What's Queer About Ethnomusicology Now?

Education:

M.St. Musicology, Wadham College, Oxford University (2021)
B.A. Music, Jesus College, Oxford University (2020)

Bio: 

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Ethnomusicology with a Certificate in Feminist Studies. My doctoral dissertation, "Listening After Death: Trans Music, Nightlife, and Deathliness in Contemporary London," examines trans modes of musical mourning under necropolitical conditions in the United Kingdom. Through a transaural approach to the nexus of listening, music, and death, my ethnography asks what political possibilities are generated and foreclosed by mourning as it is sustained by encounters with recorded popular tracks as haunted objects. By exploring dance, breath, and listening as ways into understanding the everyday life of necropolitical structures, this project reveals the ways in which the ordinary and the spectacular, or the political and the aesthetic, spill into and out of one another. 

I serve as an Associate Editor for Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology, the graduate journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology. My writing can be found in The Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Contemporary Music Review (forthcoming). I have presented my work at the American Anthropological Association, The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, and the Duke-Leuphana Gender, Queer, and Transgender Studies Workshop. My non-peer-reviewed writing can be found in my blog, Xenophonia. 

Before arriving at Duke, I completed my M.St. in Musicology at Oxford University under the supervision of Georgina Born. Prior to my master's, I earned my B.A. in Music (summa cum laude) also at Oxford.