As an active musicologist, Wright has delivered papers based on her work in American musical theater at the national and regional meetings of the Society for American Music, The American Musicological Society, and the College Music Society. Her most recent article, “Lost in The Cradle: The Reconstruction and Meaning of Marc Blitzstein’s ‘FTP Plowed Under’ (1937),” was published in American Music (University of Illinois Press), Fall 2016.