Her research interests include musical theater, musical modernism in Europe and the U.S., and children's musical cultures. She received her Ph.D. in Musicology from UCLA, with a dissertation that explored the "childlike" in French music at the fin de siècle. Her current book project traces the genesis and cultural significance of Rodgers and Hart's classic comedy Pal Joey (1940). Work related to this project has appeared in Studies in Musical Theatre, and she has chapters forthcoming in edited collections by Oxford and Routledge.