Publications
Forthcoming (Accepted):
"Block 27 and the Possibilities of Sound: Affect, History, and Creating a Space "In-Between." In Public Engagement with Holocaust Memory Sites in Poland. Edited by Diana Popescu. Palgrave Macmillan. June 2024.
“The Legacy of First Person: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2002-Present.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies.(TBD).
Pending Review:
(Book Project) Sounding Trauma, Mediating Memory: Holocaust Economy and the Politics of Sound.
“Underscoring Virality: TikTok, Sonic Wallpaper, and Antisemitic Enabling.” American Music.
2023:
Invited Educator: Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University's Regional Institute, "Witness: Mediating Holocaust Testimony in the Arts" (April 2024; Music & the Holocaust Educator)
Invited Panelist: “Music and Antisemitism,” American Musicological Society, Denver, CO, November 2023
“Underscoring Virality: TikTok, Music, and Antisemitic Enabling,” Society for American Music, Minneapolis, MN
Invited Speaker: “Sounding Memory, Mediating Trauma: Holocaust Economy and the Politics of Sound,” Jewish Community Alliance of Southern Maine & Bowdoin College, Portland, ME
2022:
“Holocaust Ventriloquism: Virtual Spectacles or Living Performance?,” Joint Meeting of the Society for Music Theory-American Musicological Society-Society for Ethnomusicology, New Orleans, LA
“Witnessing Witnessing: Holocaust Holograms and the Legacy of Lived Testimony,” Lessons and Legacies XVI, Ottawa, Canada
Invited Speaker: Convention der Österreich-Zentren, Leiden, Netherlands
2021:
“The Sonic Sensorium of Concentration Camp ‘Babel’: Reception and Description of Language in Holocaust Testimonies and Written Memoirs,” Regional Interim Meeting of Lessons and Legacies, Knoxville, TN
Invited Seminar: “Holocaust Tourism Revisited: Holocaust Memorial Culture between Education, Tourism, and Commemoration,” German Studies Association 46th Annual Conference, Indianapolis,
Invited Seminar: “Humor and Violence: Opera and Terezin,” Anne Tannenbaum Center for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2020:
Invited Speaker: “Echoes of Memory: An Evening of Remembrance,” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Montana State University, and Bozeman Public Library “Americans and the Holocaust” Traveling Exhibit, Bozeman, MT (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Invited Speaker: “Practical Academia: Becoming a Musicologist” Montana State University Music Major Seminar, Bozeman, MT
2019:
“Treblinka as Virtual Soundscape: AudioTrip and Polish Holocaust Memory,” American Musicological Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA
“Sound Ethics?: Treblinka, Ceremonial Silence, and AudioTrip,” Yad Vashem International Workshop—“Holocaust Sources: Truth, Interpretation, and (Mis)Use in the Digital Era,” Jerusalem, Israel
“Guiding or Obscuring?: Questioning the Sonic Infrastructure of Treblinka’s Audio Guide,”Special Session of Lessons and Legacies Conference, Munich, Germany
Invited Speaker: “Reflections on Poland,” Jews & Poles: Entangled Lives—University of Minnesota Duluth Summer Course, Duluth, MN, May 2019
2018:
“Sounding Narratives, Varying ‘Voices’: Affective Sonic Media in Jewish Museum Holocaust
Representations,” USA European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE
“Musical Witnessing: George Takei’s Japanese Internment Camp Musical,” Literature & Film Association Conference: Politics, Ethics, and Adaptations, Missoula, MT
Explaining the Misunderstood: The Incomprehensibility of Hanns Eisler’s Night and Fog Film Score,” NYU Steinhardt Music and Moving Images Annual Conference, New York City, NY