Essays
Book Chapters
Several of these essays are available to read from NC Docks, a digital repository. To access them, click on the essay titles.
“Shostakovich, Arnshtam, and the Women’s Soviet War Film.” In Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe, 1940s to 1980s, edited by Michael Baumgartner and Ewelina Boczkowska,115–134. New York: Routledge Press, 2022.
“A Tale of Two Cinemas: Zashchitniki (Guardians, 2017) and Music for the New Russian Superhero Film.” In Music in Action Film: Sounds Like Action!, edited by James Buhler and Mark Durrand, 181–200. New York: Routledge Press, 2020
“Silents, Sound, and Modernism in Dmitry Shostakovich’s Score to the New Babylon (1928–1929).” In Sound, Speech and Music in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema, edited by Masha Salazkina and Lilya Kaganovsky, 38–59. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.
“Dmitry Shostakovich as Film Music Theorist.” In Twentieth Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds, edited by Pauline Fairclough, 249–260. London:
Ashgate Press, 2012.
“Waila as Transnational Practice.” In Transnational Encounters: Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico Border, edited by Alejandro Madrid, 149–167. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2011.
Essay and Translation of “About the Music to the New Babylon” by Dmitry Shostakovich. In The Routledge Film Music Sourcebook, edited by James Wierzbicki, Colin Roust, and
Nathan Platte, 61–64. London: Routledge Press, 2011.
“Socialist Realism, Modernism, and Dmitry Shostakovich’s Odna (Alone, 1931).” In Shostakovich Studies 2, edited by Pauline Fairclough, 100–120. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Articles and Reviews
Several of these writings are available to read from NC Docks, a digital repository. To access them, click on the essay titles.
“Bernard Herrmann.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
“Human Rights, Music and.” In The Sage Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Janet L.
Sturman, 1090–1094. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2019).
Review of Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination by
Natalie Zelensky. American Music, Volume 40, Number 2 (Summer 2022): 272–275.
Review of This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia by Joan Neuberger.
American Historical Review, 126, issue 2 (June 2021): 876–877.
Review of Stalin’s Music Prize: Soviet Culture and Politics by Marina Frolova-Walker. Russian Review,
76, No. 4 (October 2017): 756.
Review of The Struggle for Control of Soviet Music from 1932 to 1948: Socialist Realism vs.
Western Formalism, by Meri Herrala. Russian Review 72, No.2 (April 2013): 317–318.
Full CV available upon request