Kyle Kaplan sits disciplinarily between the fields of historical musicology, critical theory, and gender and sexuality studies in order to examine the forms of intimacy that emerge through artistic collaboration and shared aesthetic beliefs. His research, in and outside of music studies, has addressed the idiosyncrasies of sexual, racial, and gender identity whether talking about the intersectional tensions of the 1950s European avant-garde, the use of James Brown’s music in interracial gay pornography, or Susan Sontag’s incongruous arguments about homosexuality. These articles can be respectively found in The Journal of Musicology, Women & Music, and PMLA.