EDUCATION
2010 PhD, Music, New York University
2002 MA, Ethnomusicology, University of Limerick
1996 BA, Literary and Cultural Studies, The College of William and Mary
NON-DEGREE EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
2023 Coursework in pursuit of an International Coaching Federation ACC credential
2022 YNAB (You Need a Budget) coach certification
2021 Human Behavior in the Social Environment (M.A.-level credit-bearing social work course), Virginia Commonwealth University
1998 Continuing education coursework in copyediting and proofreading, George Washington University
EDITORIAL & MANUSCRIPT REVIEW WORK
2022–present
The Feral Freelancer, LLC. Freelance academic editing and coaching across the humanities and social sciences. Past and present clients include faculty and graduate students at the University of Chicago, University of Cambridge, Northeastern, The City University of New York, University of Delaware, University of California/Riverside, Berklee College of Music, Swarthmore College, and the College of William & Mary
2019–present
Co-editor (with Kimberly Francis, University of Guelph), Gender/Sexuality Revision of Grove Music Online
2014–2021
Reviews Editor, Women and Music
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Reviewer of musicology, ethnomusicology, Irish studies, and folklore manuscripts/proposals for Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum,Journal of the Society for American Music, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Journal of Music History Pedagogy, Oral Tradition, Women & Music, MUSICultures, Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Yearbook for Traditional Music, Bloomsbury, Boydell & Brewer/University of Rochester Press, Clemson University Press, and Routledge Press
PEER-REVIEWED WRITING
Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Irish Traditional Music, Wesleyan University Press (2020).
“We Buried the Heteropatriarchy and Danced on its Grave: Towards a Liberation Movement for Irish Traditional Music” (book chapter). In Women & Music in Ireland, eds. Ita Beausang, Jenny O’Connor-Madsen, and Laura Watson. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer (2022), 206–219.
“Queer as Trad: LGBTQ Performers and Irish Traditional Music in the United States.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness, eds. Fred Maus and Sheila Whiteley (2022).
“Taming ‘the Tradition Bear’: Reflections on Gender, Sexuality, and Race in the Transmission of Irish Traditional Music.” Ethnomusicology Ireland, Issue 7 (2021), 8–16.
“Policing Space and Defying the Mainstream: Gender and the Creation of a Traditional Music Public Sphere in Twentieth Century Ireland.” Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 51 (2019), 247–268.
“Fielding the Field: A Fable of Belonging” (book chapter). In Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology, eds. Gregory Barz and Will Cheng. New York: Oxford University Press (2019).
“Doin’ Time with Meg and Cris, Thirty Years Later: The Queer Temporality of Pseudo-Nostalgia.” Women and Music,Volume 18 (2015), 86–94.
“Clever Young Artistes” and “The Queen of Irish Fiddlers”: Intelligibility, Gender, and the Irish Nationalist Imagination.” Ethnomusicology Ireland Issue 2/3 (2013), 1–21.
REVIEWS AND OTHER WRITING
“Rainbow Lifejackets on the Ship of State,” Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology (Spring/Summer 2025).
Invited Testimony to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media report, A Safe and Respectful Working Environment in the Arts (2022).
Response to Tomie Hahn’s “Troubling failure(s): Situating Bodies in Research and Art,” Musicology Now (2022).
Review of Music and Identity in Ireland and Beyond (Ashgate 2014), Journal for the Society of Musicology in Ireland (2017), 75-81
“Creating a Liveable Present: Organizing Irish Traditional Music in Central Virginia.” In Crosbhealach an Cheoil: Proceedings of the 2003 Crossroads Conference, ed. Fintan Vallely (2013), 114-119.
Entries on Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran, and James Morrison. In The Grove Dictionary of American Music/Oxford Music Online, ed. Charles Hiroshi Garrett (2011).
“Two Recent Sliabh Luachra Recordings.” Ethnomusicology 55, no. 1 (2011), 172-175.