She holds a Ph.D. from McGill University and previously worked as a Visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music and the College Music Department at the University of Rochester. She has published articles in Music in European Cinema (forthcoming), the Journal of Film Music, TVNM, the Journal of Plainsong and Medieval Music, Early Music History, The Journal of Music History Pedagogy, The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, and The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia. At Carleton, she teaches courses on film music, Baroque opera, Richard Wagner, gender and music, and music of the Medieval and Renaissance eras. Her book, Sonatas, Screams, and Silence : Music and Sound in the Films of Ingmar Bergman, was published in 2015 by Routledge.