Select Events
“Bright Stars, Not Gangstars: Looking After Bowie and Prince”
Popular Music Books in Process Online Series - April 2026
“I Am the Genre: History, Majesty, (Un)Doing, Reckoning Across the Beyonce Canon”
Pomona College, The Gift of Sound & Vision Lecture Series - April 2026
“Doing the ‘Dirty Work’ for Josh Clover—A Critical Karaoke Tribute,” Tribute to Joshua Clover Critical Karaoke Roundtable
PopCon 2026 - March 2026 (virtual presentation)
“Liner Notes for Beyonce: Going to the Territory Ten Years after Lemonade”
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Online Art & Music Lecture Series - March 2026
“Remembering Josh Clover”
Josh Clover In Memoriam Online Roundtable - November 2025
“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
Eastman School of Music - September 18, 2025
“I Am the Genre: Beyonce and the Breaking of Form,” keynote lecture
PopCon 2025, USC Thornton School of Music - March 15, 2025
“‘Said the Joker to the Thief’: Black Nerd Praxis in the Post-Soul Era,” A Symposium in Honor of Professor Richard Yarborough
UCLA - December 2024
“The Whale & the Wail: the greatest [Black] [music] history story ever told. Unfinished”
MoMa - December 2024
“Zora Neale Hurston’s Chance,” Chance Meetings Online Lecture Series
Authors Guild Foundation - October 2024
Christina Sharpe & Hanif Abdurraqib in Conversation, 2024 Windham Campbell Festival
Yale - September 2024
“Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess”
Geulph Jazz Festival Conference- September 2024
“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
University of Michigan - April 2024
“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
Tufts University - March 2024
“Black Rainbows, Black Dreaming, Black Planning, Black Study: Toward a Bay Area Black Sound & the Archive Collective”
February 2024
“Rhapsody & Ruin: Porgy & Bess and the Story of America”
Rutgers University - January 2024