EDUCATION

• PhD, Music – University of Virginia (May 2017)
• MA, Music – University of Virginia (December 2015)
• MM, Music History – Temple University (May 2012)
• BM, Guitar Performance – Temple University, magna cum laude (May 2010)

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

• "The Sound of Subterranean Scuzz-Holes: New York Queer Punk in the 1970s." Popular Music & Sociey, Forthcoming.
• "No Joke." The Baffler. October 10, 2018.
• "The Night School: A How-to Guidebook." with Melissa Naschek. The Stacks. July 31, 2018.
• "Westworld's Choice." Jacobin. May 13, 2018.
• "The Death of Stalin." DSA Blog. April 2, 2018.
• "Tim Lawrence's Life & Death on the New York Dance Floor." iaspm-us.net. November 1, 2017.
• "Saving the NEA Won’t Save Culture." With Benjamin Laude. Jacobin. May 7, 2017.
• Review of One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock, by Dave Laing. Popular Music and Society 39:04 (October, 2016): 476-478.
• "Inside the Green Room." Jacobin. June 14, 2016.
• Review of Networks of Sound, Style, and Subversion: The Punk and Post-Punk Worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool, and Sheffield, 1975-80, by Nick Crossley. Popular Music 35:02 (May, 2016): 291-293.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

• Peter L. Paige Grant – The Serpentine Society (2016-2017)
• PhD Fellowship – University of Virginia (2012-2017)
• Battestin Fellowship – Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (2016)
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Visiting Scholar – Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (2015)
• Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Summer Research Award – UVa (2015)
• Milton Sutter Memorial Award – Temple University (2012)
• Dean's Grant – Temple University (2011 & 2012)
• Frances Hutton Memorial Award – Temple University (2011)

SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Roundtable: The Spirit of ’77: Punk at 40. International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch Annual Conference. Cleveland, OH (February 23-26, 2017).
• Historical Materialism and Popular Music Studies. AMS/SMT. Vancouver, BC (November 3-6, 2016).
• ’Are You a Boy or Are You A Girl?’ New York Queer Punk in the 1970s. IASPM- US Annual Conference. Calgary, AB (May 28-30, 2016).
• Lukács, Mahler, and the Antinomies of Musical Meaning. South Central Graduate Music Consortium. UNC Chapel Hill (September 19-20, 2014).
• On Art's Right to Exist. Left Forum: Reform and/or Revolution. New York, NY (May 30-June 1, 2014).
• From 'You Better Work' to 'Born this Way’: Popular Music and Gay Visibility. Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. New Orleans, LA (November 1-4, 2012).
• “'Sometimes I Wished My Fist Was a Sledgehammer’: No Wave and the (Re)modernist Sublime.” Music and Violence: Conflict, Resistance, and Reconciliation. Boston University (February 18, 2012).
• “’It's Better than Pleasure, It Hurts More than Pain’: No Wave and the Subversion of Jouissance.” Radical Music History Symposium. Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland (December 8-9, 2011).

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