Sunderman Conservatory of Music

Dr. Irizarry earned a PhD in Musicology from the University of Pittsburgh in the spring of 2022 and is excited to join the Conservatory and Africana studies faculty at Gettysburg College. Her specialty areas include queer theory and the musical film, Black feminist theory and North American popular music, and opera in the era of MeToo. Her work has been published in Women and Music, Lateral, Notes, and the Ethnomusicology Review. Her current project theorizes how Black women in the music industry become critical interpreters of the politicized affects surrounding contemporary electoral politics when performing through their alter egos. She is a two-time awardee of the Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship and her work on Janelle Monáe was awarded the 2021 Randy Martin Prize by the Cultural Studies Association.