Marie Comuzzo, an ACLS/Mellon Innovative Dissertation Fellow and a PhD candidate at Brandeis University, researches how sound mediates the relationship between humans and whales, and the ecological and political consequences of these sonic encounters. Comuzzo also studies the impact of fatphobia on women and genderqueer musicians in the United States. Comuzzo has taught as a primary instructor at Mount Holyoke College and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; served as the student member of this Journal’s editorial board; and co-led an interdisciplinary pilot writing group at Brandeis University, supported primarily by the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Vol. 16 no. 1 (2026)
How do we teach a music history survey in a way that balances addressing canonical works with exploring historically excluded repertoire? Moreover, how do we undertake such a task without expending all our fleeting time and resources? In this article, we share our experiences with TimelineJS, a multimedia digital-humanities tool we have successfully used in…