Tiffany is a second year PhD student in the Department of Musicology at UCLA. She holds an MA in African American Studies and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in American Literature and Culture, both from UCLA.

 Tiffany is guided by her interest in narrative form and structure, which inspires her interest in feature documentary films. She has been active in the film and music industry as a producer, festival programmer and band manager. Most recently, Tiffany was the co-producer of The Mechanical Bride, which had its world premiere at the 2012 Hot Docs Festival, and Rap is War, an examination of the interaction between politics and music in modern Cuba that is about to hit the festival circuit.

Tiffany's interest in music, performance, marginalized groups, and narrative combine to create a scholarship that focuses on the transformative potential of the philosophical, literary, and artistic outputs of musical artists. Her work engages the desire and necessity to disturb order from within, to feel along the surfaces of language and representation for cracks to encourage other, deconstructive and transgressive forms of making and being. She is particularly interested in the ways in which music fans, as political subjects, always exceed the fixed places allotted to them, thus exposing the limits of identity politics and making political transformation possible.

Her current research explores the intersection of the occult, science fiction and queerness within industrial music of the 1980's and 90's. However, she maintains a wide breadth of other interests including but not limited to; early American religious music, mediation within live musical performance, stadium rock, American blues, glam, goth, and electronic dance music and the New Romantics. She will present her latest work, "Arts Filthy Lesson: Bowie, Baudrillard and Aesthetic Degradation" at The Symposium on David Bowie at the University of Limerick, Ireland this fall.