Her Music Academia

In this solo episode, I discuss all of the happenings this year up to date, including traveling for singing gigs, working on my dissertation, and my first job market season. I also give an update on the podcast’s schedule through the end of this year.

Estella Duo performance
Washington International Young Artists Music Series
My episode with Philip Ewell
The Way of the Fearless Writer by Beth Kempton
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker

Get in touch with me at: hermusicacademia@gmail.com

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Stephen Stacks (North Carolina Central University) all about his musical upbringing as a multi-instrumentalist, his time studying musicology at UNC Chapel Hill, and what he’s currently teaching at NCCU. We also discuss his most recent book The Resounding Revolution: Freedom Song After 1968, all about the music of the long Civil Rights Movement.

Stephen’s book
Stephen’s website
Playlist of music mentioned in Stephen’s book
My episode with Candace Bailey
bell hooks on Beyoncé

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Olivia Lucas (Louisiana State University) all about her musical upbringing as a vocalist, her time studying music theory at Harvard, and what she’s teaching at LSU. We also chat about how her early interest in metal music led to her current research on Lingua Ignota, who blends references to art music and classical vocal training with noise and extended techniques.

TW: domestic violence, religious trauma

Olivia’s SMT-Pod Episode
Olivia’s 2018 Meshuggah article
Olivia’s 2021 Meshuggah article
Olivia’s 2014 article on experience of extreme loudness at a Sunn O))) concert
2024 Teaching Difficult Topics book 
Olivia’s forthcoming chapter on Lingua Ignota and Eminem
“That He May Not Rise Again” by Lingua Ignota
Jonathan Pieslak’s article on Meshuggah
Assimilate by S. Alexander Reed

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Jennifer Ronyak (Institute of Music Aesthetics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) about her musical upbringing as a pianist, her time studying musicology at Eastman, and the major differences between music graduate programs in different countries. We also discuss her 2017 performance and analysis article “Meeting Barthes at Fischer-Dieskau’s Mill: Co-Performance, Linguistic Identity, and a Lied.”

Jennifer’s article
Boccherini’s Body by Elizabeth LeGuin
My episode of SMT-Pod

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Melissa Hoag (Oakland University) about her musical upbringing as a pianist, her path to music theory, her time as coeditor of the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and her work as editor of Expanding The Canon and a forthcoming textbook. We also discuss the AP College Board Music Theory exam, the yearly grading session with over one hundred college professors and high school teachers, and how YOU can get involved as an AP reader!

Melissa’s episode of SMT-Pod
My episode with Christine Boone
Expanding The Canon: Black Composers in the Music Theory Classroom
Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy
My Summer in Review 2024
My Summer in Review 2025