I am a music scholar, musician, and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen researching and teaching at the intersections of popular music studies, disability studies, sound studies, voice studies, and feminist media studies.

My research addresses the relationship between music and disability — broadly construed — with emphasis on embodiment, vocality, and identity formation, a research agenda that encompasses two distinct areas of focus. The first concerns deaf ontologies of sound and music. The second concerns the aesthetics of disability, illness, and gender in contemporary pop music.

Forthcoming in 2026 with the University of Michigan Press, my first book, Music at the Margins of Sense challenges the misconceptions associated with deafness in Western music discourse through the creative endeavours of musicians from across the diverse audiological and socio-cultural spectrum of deafness, while offering a multisensory, multimodal account of music and musical expertise.

My second book, The Musical Vernacular of Depression (University of Michigan Press, under contract) examines the aesthetics of depression in contemporary pop music relative to the prevalence of clinical depression among young people and its associated social inequalities, alongside a widespread cultural and generational destigmatization of mental health.

My peer-reviewed articles appear in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (2024, 2017, 2016), the Journal of the Society for American Music (2021), the Journal of Popular Music Studies (2018), the Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies (2019), among others.

The research for my second book was supported through the 4EU+ European University Alliance Visiting Professorship funding scheme, for which I held a faculty fellowship at the Sorbonne University Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health in the Spring of 2025.

From 2017-2021, I held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles Herb Alpert School of Music, where I received the 2019 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research, the highest university-wide distinction for postdocs across the sciences and humanities.

I hold a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from McGill University, where I was a Fellow of the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship program (2012-2015) through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and was the 2017 recipient of the McGill Schulich School of Music’s Outstanding Teaching Award. I hold an MA in Musicology and a BMus Hons (in Music History and Cello Performance) from the University of Western Ontario (2010, 2008).

I am founder and current co-chair of the UCPH Art & Health interdisciplinary research cluster.