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Publications

Books

The Hellenization of Politics: Wagner’s Ring Cycle and the Greeks, Cambridge University Press (under review)

Articles

“From Minstrel Shows to Radio Shows: Racism and Representation in Blackface and Blackvoice.” Journal of American Drama and Theatre 17-2 (Spring 2005): 7-16.

“Film Adaptation: From I, Robot to I Pagliacci,” Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Newsletter 11-1 (Winter 2005): 8

“Heroic Wounds: Drama, Epic, and National Identity in Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle.” The McNeese Review, vol. 42 (2004): 1-19.

“Performance Communities: Franz Schubert’s Die Winterreise and the British Romantics,” in Inventing the Individual, edited by Larry Peer, International Conference on Romanticism (2002)

“Music Drama or Music Parody? The Operatic Chorus in Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung .” Text and Presentation , vol. 22 (2001): 31-44

Review of Frederic Spotts’ Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival.

Qui Parle 10-1 (1998): 113-118

 “From das Volk to The Souls of Black Folk : Music and National Identity in Richard Wagner and W. E. B. Du Bois,” in AfroGerman Dialogues, edited by Olaf Berwald and Margo Crawford (forthcoming)