Academic Publications

“Franz Lehár’s Friederike as Weimar Middlebrow Culture,” article accepted by Cambridge Opera Journal

The Operetta Empire, monograph published by University of California Press, see “Book”

“Canonical Operetta and the Journey to Prestige” in The Oxford Handbook of the Operatic Canon, ed. William Weber and Cormac Newark (June 2020)

“The Operetta Factory,” chapter in The Cambridge Companion to Operetta, ed. Derek Scott and Anastasia Belina-Johnson (November 2019)

 “Singing Love and Dancing War: The Ballo in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” in Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera, Routledge (July 2019)

“Staging Grand Opera Ballet,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 71, no. 1 (Spring 2018), colloquy on opera and sexual violence

“Operettendämmerung: The Failures of Wagnerian Operetta,” Opera Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Winter 2017), operetta theme issue, ed. Carolyn Abbate and Flora Willson, pp. 28-48

 “The Swallow and the Lark: Puccini and Viennese Operetta,” chapter in Puccini and His World, ed. Arman Schwartz and Emanuele Senici (Princeton University Press, Bard Music Festival series, 2016), pp. 111-132

“Viennese Blood: Immigration and Emigration in Viennese Operetta,” chapter in Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River, ed. Matthew Miller and Marijeta Bozovic (Academic Studies Press, 2016), pp. 53-69

 “Arabella, Operetta, and the Triumph of Gemütlichkeit,” Opera Quarterly 31, no. 4 (Autumn 2015), Richard Strauss theme issue, ed. Wayne Heisler, pp. 199-222

“Operetta,” entry in Oxford Bibliographies in Music (2015)

Die lustige Witwe and the Creation of the Silver Age of Viennese Operetta,” Cambridge Opera Journal, 26, no. 2 (summer 2014), pp. 175-202

Works in Progress

 “Schubert on Stage and Screen,” chapter for Schubert in Context, ed. Christopher Gibbs, Cambridge University Press (chapter in progress)

“Space Opera,” article based on 2020 American Musicological Society presentation