She holds degrees from the University of Texas (B.M. in Vocal Performance) and the University of California, Los Angeles (M.A. and Ph.D.). She teaches a number of courses that align with her research interests: music of the Baroque and eighteenth century; the history of opera; music, gender, and sexuality; and graduate seminars on music and violence, as well as music and identity. Her research has been published in Música em Perspectiva (2013), American Music (2014), a collection of essays entitled The Libretto as Enlightenment Text (2015), and is forthcoming in Early Music (2016).