Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2023. “Across the Pacific: The Strategic Citizenship of Chinese Musicians.” Ethnomusicology Forum, September 21st. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2023.2230498.

2023. “Tourists of Their Own Past: Aural Palimpsests from the Mao Era.” Journal of Material Culture 28, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835221135404.

“Linguistic Intimacy: French Texts in the Lives of Franco-Canadian Musicians.” Canadian Folk Music 46, no. 3 (2012): 21-29.

Conference Papers and Presentations

“Archival Traces of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: Ethnography, Ethics, and the Production of History”

American Musicological Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

November 2022

“Considering Trauma Across Music and Sound Disciplines”

Roundtable at the American Musicological Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

November 2022

“Manners and Orientalisms: Spectacle and Racialization in Western Art Music”

Racialised Performance in Western Classical Music. Conference at Royal Holloway, University of London

July 2022

“Li Delun in Philadelphia: Ethnography, Archives, and Music across the Pacific”

Presenter and Moderator of Lecture-Recital, Symposium at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

April 2022

“Across the Pacific: Performing ‘Asian’ in Western Classical Music”

American Musicological Society Annual Conference [virtual due to COVID-19]

November 2021

“China’s One-Child Generation in Musical Migration: The Strategic Citizenship of Sea Turtles”

Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference [virtual due to COVID-19]

October 2020

“Interrogating History: Forgotten Intimacies between Asian- and African-descended Communities in North America”

Orchestrating Isolation, Isolating Race: Musical Interventions in COVID Fall-out. Virtual symposium organized by the Institute of Musical Research and Royal Holloway, University of London

June 2020

“History as Now: Finding Li Delun in Philadelphia and Changing the Living Archive”

Sounding Archives Symposium, University of Pennsylvania

April 2018

“Material Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution Era: The Affective Practices of Revolutionary Music in Contemporary China”

Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado

October 2017

“The Myths and Realities of Ethnography: Working with the Sudanese Community in West Philadelphia”

Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development, Cabrini University, Radnor, Pennsylvania

February 2017

“‘Authentic’ Ulaanbaatar and Beijing in 2016: Musical Hybridity and Change真实乌兰巴托和北京2016年：音乐杂糅和变化”

A Tale of Two Capitals: A Comparative Study of Development in Beijing and Ulaanbaatar. Symposium at the Penn Wharton China Center, Beijing

May 2016

“Lip-Syncing on the Communist Stage: Issues of Post-Colonialism, Representation, and Competition in Céline Dion and Song Zuying’s Duet of ‘Jasmine Flower’”

British International Studies Association 40th Annual Conference, “The Worlds of Inequality,” London, England

June 2015

“Diva Exchange: Circulatory Processes of Eastern and Western Encounters 

within Post-Colonial Negotiations”

Popular Culture and World Politics 7.0 Annual Conference, University of Ottawa

November 2014

“Music and Forms of Capital in the People’s Republic of China”

University of Toronto, Faculty of Music Colloquium. Winner of the Graduate Student Paper Competition

March 2014