Music analysis as theory and practice; semiotic applications in music; West African music
Elected 2010
Social and cultural histories of photographic practices; photography, anthropology and colonialism; history of museums, archives, collecting and cultural heritage; photographs in historiography, theory of history and historical method
The history of opera, particularly in 19th-century Italy; editorial work on Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini; critical theory; film music
History of European art and architecture c. 1800 in a globalising world
