Non-Fiction

My academic research has included several presentations in music history, philosophy, and pedagogy. I co-authored the article, “Student Centered Instruction: The Collaboration of Students and Teachers Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Antiracist Curriculum in Music Education” with Dr. Sharyn Battersby which is scheduled to be published March 2025 in the peer reviewed Music Educators Journal. We presented the article at the 2024 D.C. Music Educators Association conference and will be presenting, again, this year on “Student Centered Instruction Techniques in Performance Ensemble Classes and Rehearsals.” The subject of my dissertation research is the decolonization in the dialectic of music scholarship by using the shift to sound recording as the fixed medium rather than western music notation through the lens of Kuhn, Benjamin, Marx, Freire, and Adorno.

Fiction

I have written several short stories, the libretto for my opera Life in Death, and was commissioned to write a play, Poe, which was performed at the historic Reynolds Tavern in Annapolis Maryland in 2015. I have been hacking away at a novel (my second, but the first should never leave the drawer I have left it in.)