Music, Dance, & Performance

I acquire broadly in music education and music performance. The books I publish are written for a range of audiences inside and outside of academia: researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, pre-service and in-service music educators, studio music teachers and musicians, professional as well as avocational performers, composers, and more. My authors might be music professors, K-12 music teachers, community musicians, or independent scholars/professionals, and my program covers a variety of areas such as historically informed performance, repertoire studies, composition, music education and technology, music pedagogies, singing diction, and musician health. I welcome proposals for book series, research handbooks, textbooks, academic monographs, and practitioner formats. I especially enjoy reading book proposals that challenge assumptions, encourage new ways of thinking about current and historic injustices within our fields, and promote intersectional understandings of equity beyond diversity and inclusion.

I am Acquisitions Editor in the Reference department at Oxford University Press and work with scholarly societies, editorial and advisory boards, and individual contributors to commission projects for Grove Music Online, the world’s premiere English-language music dictionary, and Oxford Bibliographies Online in music. Grove Music Online updates, revises, and adds around 1,000 entries per year, with recent focuses including systematic updates to our Jazz content, musics of the Ibero-Latin world, and in the area of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. I bring a broad musical and publishing background to OUP, having completed the PhD in music at Columbia University and publishing scholarly articles regularly. I am always happy to discuss Grove with interested scholars, musicians, societies, and potential partners, so please reach out to me to discuss topics Grove Music Online might be able to address.

I publish broadly across all areas of music history and theory. I also publish in dance, film and media studies, and cultural biography. The books I publish offer serious research from a range of methodologies and approaches to both trade and academic audiences. I am seeking out new publishing projects from trade books to monographs to handbooks which propose compelling, ambitious new arguments and which make strong use of primary or archival source materials. I welcome projects which aim to shape the future of thought in music, dance, and media and how these intersect with other fields and subjects. As part of OUP’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, I am especially seeking out titles by authors from historically marginalized communities.

I acquire academic and trade books in Ethnomusicology, Jazz Studies, Environmental Ethics, and Religion. In Ethnomusicology, I look for work that prioritizes activism and advocacy, with special interest in diaspora studies, political economy, protest music, gender studies, queer studies, Indigenous musics, religious & spiritual music, music and disability, and sound studies. In Jazz Studies, I seek a healthy balance of trade biographies and academic monographs/edited collections, particularly those founded in critical practice; on the late-20th and early 21st centuries; and jazz and/or related musical expression outside the US. I welcome Environmental Ethics submissions on a range of viewpoints, with current interest in distributive and political justice; environmental racism; technology and the environment; rewilding; and environmental ethics & religion. You can find me on twitter @theweaknessnme, which is an admittedly crude nod to a favorite Joan Armatrading song.