History, aesthetics and reception of European music of the 20th and 21st centuries; modernisms; spectral music; music theory and analysis
Elected 2023
The history of opera, particularly in 19th-century Italy; editorial work on Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini; critical theory; film music
The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment
The sociology of music; popular music history, music policy & the analysis of music business & culture