She received her Ph.D. with distinction in Music History from Yale University. Originally from Baltimore, MD, she also holds undergraduate degrees in Music, Art History, and History. In her research, she considers the evolving responses of the Italian opera industry to the emerging cinematic medium in the early decades of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on Casa Ricordi, the foremost Italian music publisher of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her broad research interests include the history and theory of opera, reception studies, cultural history, the history of media technologies, and the theoretical and conceptual issues of performance and mediation.