My Work

Check out the info below to find a list of my publications, events and other exciting stuff!

I’m currently finishing a book on the musical Kiss Me, Kate and a teaching guide on Intersectionality and the American musical, among other fun things. Please get in touch if you would like to read any of my work but cannot get easy access to it.

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Sample Publications
and Appearances

Wicked’s Defying Gravity is a musical theatre anthem – and a battle cry for outsiders” Available here.

“History of Broadway”. You’re Dead to Me, BBC Sounds and Radio 4. Available here.

“‘Who Tells Your Story’: A Reflection on Race-Conscious Casting and the Musical”. In Gordon, R. & Jubin, O. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical. New York: Oxford University Press.

“‘A Place Where We Belong’”: Love and community in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie”. In Chandler, C & Gowland, G. (eds.), Out of The Darkness: Exploring the British Musical. London: Bloomsbury.

“Cubanenic, Carabenic, Castalenic, Harlemenic”: Reclaiming Blackness in Lena Horne’s Film Musicals. In McHugh, D. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical. New York: Oxford University Press.

“Friends of Dorothy” and queerness in The Wizard of Oz on Bent Notes Podcast, LGBTQ+ Music Study Group, September 2020. Listen here.

Hamilton – the diverse musical with representation problems”, The Conversation, June 29, 2020. Available here.

“I Can’t Be What You Expect of Me”: Power, Palatability, and Shame in Frozen: The Broadway Musical. Arts 20209(1), 39. Available here.

“How we study music: navigating the whitewash”. Media Diversified. November 23, 2018. Available here.