I am a Research Fellow at Macquarie University. I study Australian songbirds and lecture on The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music.
Experience
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2015–present
Research Fellow, Macquarie University
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2012–2015
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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2011–2012
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
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2010–2011
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris
Education
Publications
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2014
Whose bird is it? Messiaen's transcriptions of Australian songbirds, Twentieth-Century Music
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2013
Connecting interdisciplinary dots: Songbirds, “white rats,” and human exceptionalism, Social Science Information
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2013
A little flute music: mimicry, memory, and narrativity, Environmental Humanities
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2011
Composers’ appropriation of pied butcherbird song: Henry Tate’s ‘undersong of Australia’ comes of age, Journal of Music Research Online
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2011
The Australian pied butcherbird and the natureculture continuum, Journal of Interdisciplinary Music Studies
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2011
Anecdote and anthropomorphism: Writing the Australian pied butcherbird, Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
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2011
A taste for the beautiful, Leonardo Journal
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2010
Blowin' in Birdland: Improvisation and the Australian pied butcherbird, Leonardo Music Journal
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2008
Decoding the song of the pied butcherbird: An initial survey, Transcultural Music Review
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2007
Post Impressions: A Travel Book for Tragic Intellectuals, Twisted Fiddle