Publications
Selected publications
“Women Composers at the White House: The National League of American Pen Women and Phyllis Fergus’s Advocacy for Women in American Music.”
Journal of the Society for American Music 12, no. 4 (November 2018): 477–507.
The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
“The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn.” In
The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History, 335–51. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003; reprinted in
Mendelssohn.
Early Romantic Composer Series. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015.
“Jane Austen’s Playlist: Teaching Music History Beyond the Canon.”
The Journal of Music History Pedagogy 4, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 213–230.
“Musical Topics, Historical Styles, and Narrative in Carl Davis’s Score for
Pride and Prejudice (1995).”
Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance 6, no. 2 (2013): 141–55.
“Never Perfectly Beautiful: Physiognomy, Jewishness, and Mendelssohn Portraiture.” In
Mendelssohn Perspectives, 9–30. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012.
“In a Woman’s Voice: Musical Recitation and the Feminization of American Melodrama” In
Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2011), 61–82.
“Mendelssohn’s Other Concerto: the Changing Reception of the Piano Concerto no. 2, op. 40, in D minor.”
The Journal of Musicological Research 29 (2010): 119–47 and
Journal of the Musicological Society of Korea 13, no. (2010): 61–84.
“Fanny Hensel’s Seasons of Life: Poetic Epigrams, Vignettes, and Meaning in
Das Jahr.”
Journal of Musicological Research 27 (2008): 359–95.
“Victorian Fairies and Felix Mendelssohn’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in England.”
19th-Century Music Review 4 (2007): 53–79.
“Reading Shakespeare, Seeing Mendelssohn: Concert Readings of
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ca. 1850-1920.”
Musical Quarterly 89 (2006): 199–236.
“Mendelssohn’s Second Piano Concerto, Op. 40, and the Origins of his
Serenade and Allegro Giojoso, Op. 43,”
Journal of Musicology 20 (August 2003): 358–87.
“The Suppression of Fanny Mendelssohn: Rethinking Feminist Biography,”
19th-Century Music 26 (Fall 2002): 113
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