Subject Areas: Voice and Lyric Diction Mezzo-Soprano
Cognate fields of study during her graduate work included vocal acoustics, voice disorders and rehabilitation, and Baroque era historical performance practice. Research interests include: African American women composers of western art music, the artsong heritage of the American Negro Spiritual, the impact of performing arts and anthropology training on the wellbeing of Alabama youth, and the improvement of curricula for lyric diction pedagogy and Russian art song literature studies tailored to beginning Anglophone singers, based on an innovative application of clinical phonetics and second language acquisition theory.
