I am a music scholar, musician, and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen researching and teaching at the intersections of popular music studies, sound studies, voice studies, disability studies, and feminist media studies.

My scholarship analyzes the relationship between music and disability with emphasis on vocality, embodiment, and identity formation, an agenda that culminates in two distinct areas of expertise: (1) deaf and hard of hearing ontologies of sound and music, and (2) the aesthetics of disability and gender in contemporary pop music. 

My first book, Music at the Margins of Sense  (University of Michigan Press 2026) contests prevailing misconceptions associated with deafness and hearing in western music through examining the creative endeavours of musicians from across the diverse audiological and socio-cultural spectrum of hearing loss to impart a multisensory, multimodal account of music and musicianship. 

My second book, The Musical Vernacular of Depression (University of Michigan Press, under contract) examines the aestheticization of depression in contemporary Anglo-American pop music relative to the increasing prevalence of clinical depression among young people and its related social inequalities, alongside a widespread cultural destigmatization of mental health. The research for my second book was supported through a 4EU+ Visiting Professorship at the Sorbonne University Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health in the Spring of 2025.

My peer-reviewed articles appear in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, the Journal of the Society for American Music, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies. I have contributed chapters to several edited volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Pop Music, The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music, and The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas.

I have delivered invited lectures at several institutions including Oxford University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Brown University, Emory University, Georgia College & State University, the University of Southern California, the New England Conservatory of Music, Wellesley College, King’s College London, the American University of Beirut, Hong Kong Baptist University, among others.

I am incoming Associate Editor of the Journal of Musicology, and serve on the Editorial Board of Sound Studies. I currently serve as co-chair of the UCPH Art and Health interdisciplinary research cluster.

Prior to starting my appointment at the University of Copenhagen, I held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (2017-2021), where I received the 2019 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research, the highest university-wide distinction for postdocs across the sciences and humanities. I hold a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from McGill University, where I was a Fellow of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship program (2012-2015) through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and was the 2017 recipient of the McGill Schulich School of Music’s Outstanding Teaching Award. 

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UCPH faculty bio.

Academic CV (updated Sept 2026).