“Emmerich Kálmán’s Die Bajadere and Operetta’s Self-Reflexive Exoticism” Duke University (October 2020)
“Regietheater and the Canon” Operatic Canon roundtable, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (October 2019)
“Operetta’s America,” preconcert talk Bard Music Festival, Korngold and His World (August 2019)
“Kissing Lessons: The Performance of Gender in Viennese Operetta”
Keynote lecture for library exhibition opening, University of California, Santa Barbara (2019)
“Richard Tauber and the Reproducible Voice in Weimar Berlin”
University of California, Santa Barbara (2019)
“Operetta and Labor,” University of Kansas, Lawrence (2018)
“Sexual Violence Onstage,” Columbia University, Department of Music and Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (2016)
“Das Land des Lächelns and Phonographic Listening in Late Weimar Berlin,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Music (2015)
Guest class on Regietheater, for seminar “Music of the Stage,” Northeastern University (2015)
“Operetta Canon Formation and the Journey to Prestige”
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Music, Opera Studies Workshop (2015)
Conference Talks
“The Present and Future of the Music B.A.,” American Musicological Society annual meeting, virtual (November 2021)
“Hochzeit in Hollywood: The American Film Industry on the Viennese Operetta Stage,” Song, Stage and Screen XV, virtual (June 2021)
“Alienation, Diversity, and Regietheater in Die Zauberflöte,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Louis (March 2021)
“Space Opera,” American Musicological Society annual meeting, virtual (November 2020) and Opera and Popular Culture Since 1900, Texas Christian University (February 2020)
“The Technological Voice in Weimar Berlin,” Gaiety, Glitz and Glamour, or Dispirited Historical Dregs? A Re-evaluation of Operetta, University of Leeds (January 2019)
“Old Man Danube: Emmerich Kálmán’s Broadway Exile, 1941-1945,” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio (November 2018)
Seminar member, “Liberalism and Its Discontents: Music and Culture in German-Speaking Europe, 1848-1914,” German Studies Association, Pittsburgh (September 2018)
“Tu, felix Autriche, nube: Nostalgia and Marriage Plots in First Republic Operetta,” Twentieth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Huddersfield (June 2018)
“Weimar Kitsch: Franz Lehár’s Goethe Operetta,” Music and the Middlebrow, University of Notre Dame International, London (2017)
Panelist, “Sexual Violence Onstage: How Musicologists Promote Resistance in the 21st Century,” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver (2016)
“Zigeuneroperette: Austro-Hungarian Operetta and Authenticity Reconsidered,” Nineteenth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Oxford (2016)
“Text and Authorship in Regietheater,” Seminar, “Literature and Opera,” American Comparative Literature Association (2016)
“Audience and Formula in Viennese Operetta,” EZ Music, University of California, Berkeley (2016)
“Regietheater and Disenchantment: The Case of Rusalka,” First Transnational Opera Studies Conference, Bologna (2015), Music and Philosophy Conference, Royal Musicological Association, London (2015)
“Operetta, Labor, and Escapism in Fin-de-siècle Vienna,” Eighteenth Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, Toronto (2014)
“Bombenerfolg: Karl Kraus and Die Csárdásfürstin at War,” Austrian Studies Association Annual Meeting, University of Texas at Austin (2014)
“Verdi, Ritual, and Contemporary Operatic Production” and panelist, “Verdi and the (New) Media” at “Verdi’s Third Century: Italian Opera Today,” American Institute for Verdi Studies at New York University (2013)
“From Kálmán Imre to Emmerich Kálmán: Framing Hungary in Der Zigeunerprimas” American Hungarian Educators Association Annual Meeting (2013)
“Never Ask the Merry Nibelungs: Wagner in Operetta from Critique to Aspiration” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans (2012)