He teaches seminars on the classical style, romantic song, folklorism in 19th century music, Mendelssohn and Schumann, Mozart, and jazz. He also teaches a FWIS on musical biography. His research interests include German Romantic Song, the life and music of C. P. E. Bach, and of Clara and Robert Schumann, the analysis of text and music, and musical biography. His work has been published by Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press and has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Music Theory Spectrum, and Music Analysis. He is currently editing volumes for the new complete critical editions of Robert Schmann and of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.