Book
2019 Haunthenticity: Musical Replay and the Fear of the Real, Wesleyan University Press
Peer-reviewed Articles
2023 “The College Jazz Program as Tradition-Making: Establishing a New Lineage in Jazz,” in Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, Vol. 27: 32-50.
2021 “Jazz Education After 2017: The Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and the Pedagogical Lineage,” in Jazz and Culture, Vol. 4 (2): 27-55.
2019 “Jason Moran’s Staged (2018): Improvisational Blurring and the Boundaries of Conceptual Art,” in The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 54 (3/2019) (Special Issue on “Improvisation in Contemporary Art”): 29-45.
2016 “Approaching the Jazz Past: MOPDtK’s Blue and Jason Moran’s ‘In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959.’” The Journal of Jazz Studies, Vol. 11 (2) (Fall 2016).
2014 “‘Bring It On Home’: Robert Plant, Janis Joplin, and the Myth of Origin.” The Journal of Popular Music Studies, Vol. 26 (2) (June 2014).
2010 “Subject, Object, Music: John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, and Eastern (Western) Philosophy in Music.” Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études Critiques en Improvisation, Vol. 6 (2) (December 2010).
2006 “Corpo-Realities: Keepin’ it Real in ‘Music and Embodiment’ Scholarship.” Current Musicology, No. 82 (Fall 2006), 61-80.
Book Chapters
2023 “Yusef’s Breath: Jazz Love, Cross-Racial Identification, and Paying Dues,” in Intimate Entanglements: Vulnerability in the Ethnography of Performance, edited by Michelle Kisliuk and Sidra Lawrence. University of Rochester Press, pp. 23-46.
2023 “Improvisation, Pedagogy, and Black Feminist Thought: Alternative Knowledge Takes Center Stage,” in The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking, edited by Mark Lomanno and Daniel Fischlin. Temple University Press.
2021 “The Lessons of Jazz: What We Teach When We Teach Jazz in College” in Artistic Practice as Research in Jazz, edited by Michael Kahr. Routledge Press.
2016 “Improvisation Within a Scene of Constraint: Judith Butler interviewed by Tracy McMullen” in Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound and Subjectivity, edited by Gillian Siddal and Ellen Waterman, p. 21-36. Duke University Press.
2014 “The Improvisative,” in The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, edited by George Lewis and Ben Piekut. Oxford University Press.
2013 “People, Don’t Get Ready: Improvisation, Democracy, and Hope” in People Get Ready: The Future of Jazz in Now, edited by Ajay Heble and Robert Wallace. Duke University Press.
2008 “Identity for Sale: Glenn Miller, Wynton Marsalis and Cultural Replay in Music.” In Big Ears: Listening for Gender in Jazz Studies, edited by Nichole Rustin and Sherrie Tucker. Duke University Press.