Broadly speaking, my interests lie in philosophy, politics, ethics and embodiment from 19^th and 20^th century perspectives. I am currently shaping a dissertation on the intellectual and political history of the relationship of music, ethics and embodiment as brokered through philosophies of immanence. This project encompasses topics as diverse as the history of psychoanalysis, the origins of Continental support for the Indian independence movement, the history of music-based community programs in the 1970s and the so-called “immanentist” turn in political theory more generally. My work on embodiment is based on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, and I hope to introduce music studies to a discourse on embodiment that contests Cartesian dualism from its very moment of inception.

I also play the viola, and hold a degree in Viola Performance from Oberlin Conservatory. I currently play in a number of Brooklyn-based rock, noise, improv and contemporary classical projects. I am currently preparing a chapter for the forthcoming book Gilles Deleuze and the Theory and Philosophy of Music (Ashgate Press), and this past summer I coauthered “On Diversity,” with my advisor Jairo Moreno, which will appear in Gamut: The Journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic in 2009.