I am a third year PhD student focusing on the representation of political ideologies and national identity in the soundtracks of the New Hollywood period. My research involves exploring narrative cinema from the United States in the 1970s to determine how we can understand how the music and sound can project ideas of national identity, as either critique or celebration.

I received my MA and BA degrees in Popular Music Research at Goldsmiths, University of London, where I primarily focused on the influence of politics, economics and postmodernism in both film and popular music.

Alongside my studies, in 2019 I co-founded the journal Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Cultures. We focus on publishing the works of current students and early career academics, and I have acted as Editor-in-Chief since 2021.

Publications

“Disassembling the Diegesis: Diegetic Rupture, Reflexivity, and the Referencing of Unreality in Post-classical Narrative Film Soundtracks,” Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Cultures 6 (2024): https://doi.org/10.21428/66f840a4.12c17f99.

“From Civil Rights to the Post-racial Lie: The Representation of Racial Politics in the American Horror Film Score,” Context 48 (2022): 53–67, https://doi.org/10.46580/cx78995

Conference Appearances

“Jerry Goldsmith’s Alien Score and the Representation of the American National Character,” paper delivered at Music and the Moving Image Conference, New York, 2025.

“The 20th Century Frontiersman: 1970s Masculinity and the Sound of the American Man in Big Jake,” paper delivered at Sound on Screen IV, Oxford, 2025.