2007

March 24, Meeting of the American Musicological Society MidWest Chapter, Oxford, OH. Paper presentation: "Transforming Text: Weill's Use of Circularity as a Framing Device."

Academic Year 2007-2008, Fall and Spring Semesters: teaching assistant at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.

2006

March 15-19, 2006. Chicago, Illinois. 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for American Music. Paper presentation: "The Aesthetic Dilemma of the Composers' Collective: Can Proletarian Chants and Bourgeois Modernist Music Join Forces?"

Academic Year 2006-2007, Fall and Spring Semesters: teaching assistant at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.

2005

Academic Year 2004-2005, Summer, teaching: Introduction to World Musics for non-majors at The Pennsylvania State University

March 6, 2005. Queens College, Flushing, New York - Aaron Copland School of Music. Pre-concert lecture for the Marc Blitzstein Centennial Concert. "Marc Blitzstein: a progressive in the name of
Sacco and Vanzetti"

SAM--Society for American Music--Conference, 16-19 February, Eugene, Oregon. Paper presentation: "The Shadows of McCarthyism on Marc Blitzstein's
Sacco and Vanzetti"

Academic Year 2005-2006, Fall and Spring Semesters: teaching assistant at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.

2004

Academic Year 2003-2004, Summer, teaching: Introduction to World Musics for non-majors at The Pennsylvania State University

April, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. College of Musical Arts. Guest Lecture: "The Shadows of the Red Scare: A Heavy Burden on the Completion of  Marc Blitzstein's
Sacco and Vanzetti."

Academic Year 2004-2005, Spring Semester: teaching assistant at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.

2003

November, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania. Department of Italian. Guest Lecture: "Marc Blitzstein's Sacco and Vanzetti: McCarthyism Versus the Creative Process."

7th Feminist Theory and Music International Conference, 17-20 July, Bowling Green, OH. Paper presentation: "Sojourner Truth's
And Ar'n't I a Woman? The Musical Realization of a Powerful Cult."

2002

October 28, Edinboro University Music Department, Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Guest Lecture:  "Marc Blitzstein's Sacco and Vanzetti: McCarthyism Versus the Creative Process."

September 28, Meeting of the American Musicological Society MidWest Chapter, Chicago. Paper presentation: "Marc Blitzstein's
Sacco and Vanzetti and the Rhetoric of McCarthyism."

Academic Year 2002-2003, Fall and Spring Semesters, teaching: Introduction to Music for non-majors at Bowling Green State University.

2001

Academic Year 2001-2002, Fall and Spring Semesters, teaching: Introduction to Music for non-majors at Bowling Green State University.

2000

Academic Year 2000-2001, Fall and Spring Semesters, teaching: Introduction to Music for non-majors at Bowling Green State University.

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