Essays

2020

Public Solitude: The Paradox of the Operatic Anchoress

A Year of Queer Podcasting for Musicology

2019

Birtwistle and the Eucharist: Rethinking Transcendence, Flesh, and Desire in Opera Studies

Nuns and Troubadours: A Medievalist Pilgrimage through RuneScape

2018

Disney's Coco and the Queer Saint

Hearing the Thirteenth-Century Body in Benjamin and Crimp's Written on Skin

"Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine": The Queer Art of Transcription

Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge and the Catholic Body

Schoenberg’s Erwartung and the Structure of Desire

Call Me by Your Name: Queer Soundtrack in the Coming-of-Age

“The Rules of the Game”: Analysing Ambiguity in Unsuk Chin’s Acrostic Wordplay

ANOHNI: The Grain of the Transgender Voice

"Style", "Flesh", and "Styles of the Flesh": A Phenomenology of the Transgender Body

Programme Notes for my Granddad's Funeral: A Musical Eulogy

2017

Sex, Death, and Kurt Weill in 1920s Berlin

Mock the Object Itself: Homophobia, the Songful, and the Grain in Dudley Moore's Britten Parody

2016

Erotic Biography in Janáček’s Quartet No. 1 and Britten’s Quartet No. 3

Purple Schubert: Mapping the Uncanny in of the first movement of D. 960

2015

Madness and Gender in "Ah! stigie larve" from Handel's Orlando

"I don't like your tone of voice": The Power Dynamics of Vocal Drag in George Benjamin's Into the Little Hill

Intertextuality and Satire in the Roman de Fauvel's Motets