ACADEMIA

WORK >> MUSIC // SHOWS // ACADEMIA // PODCAST

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

February 2025

The special issue of the academic journal Studies in Musical Theatre I co-edited with Emilio Méndez on "The Musical-Theatrical Global South" is now published!

New Book Published

October 2024

Thrilled that my scholarly book on Black women, musicals, and vocal performance is now published by Duke University Press, where it won the Scholars of Color First Book Award!

New Article on Sondheim's Vamps

February 2024

I write about receiving feedback from Sondheim on a song I wrote for The Family Resemblance and study vamps in conversation with African pianism, gospel, and minimalist concert music.

Tenure Portfolio

June 2023

Freestanding website with portfolio of materials submitted for tenure at Northwestern University (statements, scholarly work, creative work, etc).

CFP: The Musical-Theatrical Global South

February 2023

Call for papers for a special issue of the journal Studies in Musical Theatre, co-edited by Masi Asare and Emilio Méndez.

The Singing Voice

The Routledge Companion to Musical theatre (December 2022), pp. 54-67

Book Review

TDR 66, NO. 3 (SEPTEMBER 2022): 166–67

Review of Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne Brooks.

MT/D, or change: An anti-racist musical theatre reading group

Studies in Musical Theatre, Volume 16, Number 1, April 2022, pp. 53-76

Co-authored with Donatella Galella, Jordan Ealey, SAJ, Hye Won Kim, Matthew D. Morrison, Fred Moten, Karen Shimakawa, and Celine Parreñas Shimizu.