Publications

Forthcoming (Accepted):

  • "The Singular/Variegated Duality: Curating Jewish Heritage Space on TikTok with Montana Tucker's TikTok Docu-series, 'How to Never Forget'"

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. 

2024:

  • "Polarization and Performative Activism: Identity Politics in Post-October 7th Discourse on Israel-Palestine on Social Media," Association for Jewish Studies," International-Online, December 2024
  • “Resonant Legacies, Dissonant Translations: A Comparative Ethnographic Analysis of Sonic Curation in Holocaust and US Slave Memorial Sites,” American Musicological Society, Chicago, IL, November 2024 

2023:

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

Academic Talks