Author

The Music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy Series, edited by Richard Anatone, 2022.

  • Ch. 3, “Changing Times: The Diatonic Rhythms of Nobuo Uematsu’s Final Fantasy Battle Music.”

“The Impulse to Apocalypse: The Late Works of A. N. Skryabin, 1910-1915.” PhD Dissertation, 2024.

“Scriabin’s Ecstasy: When Poetry and Music Meet” in The UC Undergraduate Journal of Slavic and East/Central European Studies, 2018.

Presentations

“The Impulse to Apocalypse: A Lecture Recital on the Music and Mysticism of Alexander Skryabin,” 2024.

Shovel Knight: 80s Retro-Synths and Hyperreal NES-talgia. Nostalgia, Music, and Music Studies, 2022.

The Pulse of Combat: Rethinking Diatonic Rhythm through RPG Battle Music. North American Conference on Video Game Music, 2021.

“Fifty Shades of White?:” The Witcher III’s Pa(ga)n-Slavism. LUDO2021.

Education

PhD in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles (2024)

Masters of Arts in Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles (2020)

Bachelors of Arts in Musicology and Russian Language and Literature Summa cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles (2018)