Music:

I started at Louisiana State University as a violin major, but ultimately completed my Ph.D. in Music. My dissertation examines the ways in which the late 12th century troubadour Folquet de Marseille used musical structures to convey the poetic themes in his songs. I have presented aspects of my dissertation numerous times at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI.  "Paraphrased and Parodied," a paper I published in Neophilologus examines reuses of one of his songs in works by later writers. I am currently preparing a manuscript from a presentation, "Kings are Like Paintings," that I gave at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo in 2013. In it I discuss the disputed source for one of Folquet’s wise sayings. Every year I prepare a discography (a list of recordings) that incorporate Occitan in some way for Tenso, the journal of the Societe Guilhem IX. In May of 2015, I provided an overview of what I'd learned from preparing this discography to the Societe at the Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo. My review of Sarah Kay's Parrots and Nightingales was published in 2016 in Modern Philology. A fuller list of my presentations and papers can be found on my Brockport website.