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ROBERTA M. MARVIN
EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Higher Education
Ph.D. Historical Musicology Brandeis University 1992 (1986-1992)
M.A. Historical Musicology Tufts University 1986 (1984-1986)
B.M. Flute Performance Boston Conservatory of Music 1975 (1971-1975)
Professional Academic and Administrative Positions
University of Massachusetts
Chair, Department of Music and Dance 2016-present
Professor of Musicology, Cepartment of Music and Dance (tenured 2016) 2016-present
University of Iowa Director, Opera Studies Forum 1999-2016
Associate Professor, University College (adjunct) 2013-2016
Associate Dean, International Programs 2010-2012
Associate Professor, International Programs (affiliated faculty/adjunct) 2003-2018
Director, Office of Research, Grants, and Development, International Programs 2003-2005
Head of Musicology, School of Music 1998-2001
Associate Professor, Musicology (tenured in 1999) 1997-2003
University of Chicago
Associate General Editor, The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, University of 2018-present
Chicago Press 2006-2015
University of Alabama
Head of Musicology 1993-1997
Assistant Professor, Musicology 1993-1997
Associate Professor (promotion earned before leaving the institution) 1997
Boston University Visiting Assistant Professor, Musicology 1992-1993
Tufts University Visiting Lecturer, Musicology 1991-1992
Visiting Lecturer, Experimental College Spring 1991
Miscellaneous Private studio, flute instructor 1973-1991
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, PRIZES
International / National Competitions
2012 Visiting International Research Fellowship, Oxford Brookes University (UK)
2011 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities (Italy)
(alternate)
2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
2010 Visiting Research Fellow, University of London Institute for Musical Research (UK)
2010 Humanities Iowa Grant (for the University of Iowa Opera Studies Forum)
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2009-2010 Leverhulme Foundation Research Fellowship (UK) (declined for personal reasons)
2009 Music & Letters Trust Research Grant (UK)
2007 American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant
2004-2005 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors
2003-2004 Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, Liguria Center for the Arts and Humanities (Italy)
2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
2002-2003 Howard Foundation Fellowship
1993-1994 Fulbright (Council for International Exchange of Scholars) Research Scholar
Fellowship (Italy)
1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend
1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant
1992 American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant
1991 Premio Internazionale “Giuseppe Verdi” awarded by the Istituto Nazionale di Studi
Verdiani (Italy)
1988-1989 Fulbright (Institute for International Education) Grant for Dissertation Research
(Italy)
Institutional Competitions
2018-2020 University of Massachusetts Center for Teaching Excellence National Science
Foundation Grant for Teaching Assessment Pilot Program
2017-2018 University of Massachusetts Interdisciplinary Studies Institute Fellow
2010 University of Iowa Summer Research Fellowship, International Programs
2009/2008/2006/1999 University of Iowa International Programs Travel Grants
2005 University of Iowa Stanley International Programs-Obermann Center Research
Fellowship
2005 University of Iowa International Programs Major Projects Award (collaborative)
2004 / 2002 / 2000 / University of Iowa Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant
1998
2004 University of Iowa Curriculum Development Award, International Programs
2001 University of Iowa Distinguished International Lecture Series Grant
2001 University of Iowa New Technologies in the Learning Environment Grant
2001 University of Iowa Obermann Center Summer Research Seminar Award
(collaborative)
2000-2002 University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean’s Scholar Award
1999 University of Iowa Career Development Award
1998 University of Iowa Central Investment Fund for Research Enhancement Grant
1998 University of Iowa Old Gold New Faculty Research Fellowship
1997 / 1995 University of Alabama Research Committee Summer Research Grants
1988 Brandeis University Sachar Dissertation Research Fellowship, Damon Award
Additional Professional Honors
2014 Classical Music Editor’s Choice Top Ten Book of 2014 for The Cambridge Verdi
Encyclopedia, ed. Roberta Montemorra Marvin
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2011 University of Iowa Freshman Initiative “Thank-a-Teacher” Program, honored for
First-Year Seminar
2007 Short-listed for the American Musicological Society’s Ruth A. Solie Award for
Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries, ed.
Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Downing A. Thomas
1998-2010 Obermann Center, University of Iowa: Associate 2009-10; Scholar-in-Residence
1998-2003, 2005-09
2001 University of Iowa Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Nominee
2000 University of Iowa “Preparing Our Graduate Students as Teachers” Award
1997 Elected to Phi Beta Delta (international honor society)
1975 Elected to Pi Kappa Lambda (national music honor society)
SCHOLARSHIP
Publications
Books (Authored)
Verdi and the Victorians. Music in Britain, 1600-1900. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, in progress.
The Politics of Verdi’s “Cantica”. Royal Musical Association Monographs. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
Verdi the Student–Verdi the Teacher. Parma: Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 2010. (Winner of the
Premio Internazionale “Giuseppe Verdi”).
Books (Edited or Co-edited)
Music and World War II. Edited by Pamela Potter, Christina Baade, and Roberta Montemorra Marvin.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.
Opera Outside the Box: Cultural Reflections and Notions of Opera in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
(provisional title). Edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Roger Parker (equal contributions).
Abingdon: Routledge/Ashgate, in progress.
The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-1930. Edited by Christina Bashford and Roberta
Montemorra Marvin (equal contributions). Music in Society and Culture. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer,
2016.
Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard von Bingen to The Beatles. Edited by Craig A. Monson and Roberta
Montemorra Marvin (equal contributions). Eastman Studies in Music. Rochester: University of Rochester
Press, 2013.
The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia. Edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2013. (Classical Music Editor’s Choice Top Ten Book of 2014).
Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera. Edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and
Hilary Poriss (equal contributions). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries. Edited by Roberta Montemorra
Marvin and Downing A. Thomas (equal contributions). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. (Short-listed for the
American Musicological Society’s Ruth A. Solie Award)
Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations. Edited by Stephen A. Crist and Roberta
Montemorra Marvin (equal contributions). Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004. (Paperback
reissue, 2008.)
Verdi 2001: Atti del Convegno Internazionale / Proceedings of the International Conference, Parma-New
York-New Haven, January-February 2001. Edited by Fabrizio Della Seta, Roberta Montemorra Marvin,
and Marco Marica (equal contributions). 2 vols. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003.
Books / Critical (Music) Editions
Giuseppe Verdi: Juvenilia, co-editor. 2 vols. The Works of Giuseppe Verdi. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press / Milan: Ricordi, in preparation.
Giuseppe Verdi: Cantatas and Hymns: Inno delle nazioni and Suona la tromba (Inno popolare), sole editor
of score and author of historical introduction and critical commentary. The Works of Giuseppe Verdi.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press / Milan: Ricordi. Full score, 2007 / Vocal score, 2010.
Giuseppe Verdi: I masnadieri, sole editor of score and author of historical introduction and critical
commentary. The Works of Giuseppe Verdi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press / Milan: Ricordi. Full
score, 2000 / Vocal score, 2004.
Giuseppe Verdi: Sinfonia in D Major, sole editor of full score and author of historical introduction and
critical commentary. Parma: Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani / Milan: Teatro della Scala, 2000.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Coming to Terms with Jenny Lind in Victorian Britain.” Under review.
“Introduction.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review, special issue on opera and the ancient world. In
preparation.
“Notions of Verdi in Victorian Britain.” In Opera and Print Culture in Nineteenth--Century Britain. Edited
by Christina Fuhrmann and Alison Mero. Forthcoming.
“Selling a ‘False Verdi’ in Victorian London.” In The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World, 1800-
1930, pp. 223-247. Edited by Christina Bashford and Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Music in Society and
Culture. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2016.
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“Verdi’s Shakespearean Operas: Introduction.” Verdi Forum 41-42 (2014-2015): 73-75.
“Verdi’s ‘Music of the Future’.” In Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard von Bingen to The Beatles, pp.
158-179. Edited by Craig A. Monson and Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Eastman Studies in Music.
Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2013.
“Introduction.” Cambridge Opera Journal, special issue on opera reception, 25/2 (2013): 117-120.
“Verdi, Conservatory Reform, and the Italian Musical Tradition.” In L’insegnamento dei conservatori, la
composizione e la vita musicale nell’Europa dell’Ottocento, pp. 3-30. Edited by Licia Sirch, et al. Milan:
Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2012.
“‘Idealizing the Prima Donna in Mid-Victorian London.” The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long
Nineteenth Century, Ch. 2, pp. 21-41. Edited by Rachel Cowgill and Hilary Poriss. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2012.
“The Victorian Violetta: The Social Messages of Verdi’s La traviata.” Art and Ideology in European
Opera, Ch. 10, pp. 224-240. Edited by Rachel Cowgill, Clive Brown, and David Cooper. Woodbridge:
Boydell, 2010.
“Verdian Opera in the Victorian Parlor.” Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera, Ch.
4, pp. 53-75. Edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Hilary Poriss. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2010.
“Introduction.” Nineteenth-Century Music Review, special issue on ottocento opera, 7/2 (2010): 3-5.
“Introduction to The Great Operas: A Verdian Manifesto?” Verdi Forum 34 (2007 [2011]): 28-33.
“Verdi Learns to Compose: The Writings of Bonifazio Asioli.” Studi musicali 36/2 (2007): 469-490.
“Handel’s Acis and Galatea: A Victorian View.” Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century
British Music, pp. 249-264. Edited by Julian Rushton and Rachel Cowgill. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
“Burlesques, Barriers, Borders, and Boundaries” and “Introduction: Migrations and Transformations.”
Operatic Migrations: Transforming Works and Crossing Boundaries, pp. 205-216 and pp. 1-6. Edited by
Roberta Montemorra Marvin and Downing A. Thomas. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
“Commercial Intrigue, National Identity, and the Italian Premiere of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle.”
Nineteenth-Century Studies 18 (2004 [2005]): 117-138.
“Verdi’s Non-Operatic Works.” Cambridge Companion to Verdi, pp. 169-181 and (notes) pp. 296-299.
Edited by Scott Balthazar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“Andrea Maffei’s ‘Ugly Sin’: The Libretto for Verdi’s I masnadieri” and “Scholarly Inquiry in Historical
Musicology.” Historical Musicology: Sources, Methods, Interpretations , pp. 280-301 and pp. 1-7. Edited
by Stephen A. Crist and Roberta Montemorra Marvin. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004 /
paperback reissue, 2008.
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“Verdian Opera Burlesqued: A Glimpse into Mid-Victorian Theatrical Culture.” Cambridge Opera Journal
15/1 (2003): 33-66; publisher’s errata, 15/2 (2003): 209-211. Reprinted in National Traditions in
Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume 1: Italy, France, England and the Americas, pp. 183-218. Edited by
Steven Huebner. Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies. Farmham: Ashgate, 2010.
“Reflections of Art and Society: Adaptations of Verdi’s Il trovatore and La traviata for the Stages of
Victorian London.” Verdi 2001: Atti del Convegno Internazionale, II: 789-809. Edited by Fabrizio Della
Seta, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, and Marco Marica. 2 vols. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003.
“La Messa solenne di Rossini: La sua prima esecuzione in Italia” (“Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle: Its
Premiere in Italy”). Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi 2001 [2002]: 37-82.
“The Censorship of Verdi’s Operas in Victorian London.” Music & Letters 82/4 (2001): 582-610.
“Music at Court During the Reign of Maria Luigia, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla: A Partial
Survey.” The Musical Quarterly 83/1 (2000): 475-496.
“Verdi, Nationalism, and Cultivation of the Folk Idiom: His Stornelli of the 1860s.” Verdi Forum 26-27
(1999-2000 [2003]): 33-38.
“The Censorship of I masnadieri in London.” Verdi Newsletter 25 (1998 [2001]): 20-23.
“Aspects of Tempo in Verdi’s Early and Middle Period Italian Operas.” Verdi’s Middle Period: Source
Studies, Analysis, and Performance Practice, pp. 393-411. Edited by Martin Chusid. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1997.
“The Critical Reception of Verdi’s Operas in London, 1845-1847.” Verdi Newsletter 24 (1997[1999]): 7-
11.
“Verdi’s Unwritten Operas.” The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995: Selected
Proceedings, II, pp. 191-204. Edited by Patrick F. Devine and Harry White. 2 vols. Irish Musical Studies,
6. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996.
“Shakespeare and Primo Ottocento Italian Opera: The Case of Rossini’s Otello.” The Opera and
Shakespeare, pp.71-96. Edited by Holger Klein and Christopher Smith. Shakespeare Yearbook, vol.4.
Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1994.
“Verdi’s Tempo Assignments in I masnadieri.” Actas del XV Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de
Musicologi'a “Culturas musicales del Mediterraneo y sus ramificaciones,” Madrid 1992. Revista de
musicologi'a 16/6 (1993[1997]): 3179-3195.
“A Verdi Autograph and the Problem of Authenticity.” Studi Verdiani 9 (1993[1995]): 33-51.
“The Censorship of I masnadieri in Italy.” Verdi Newsletter 21 (1993[1995]): 5-12.
“Verdi and the Metronome.” Verdi Newsletter 20 (1992): 4-8.
“Artistic Concerns and Practical Considerations in the Composition of I masnadieri.” Studi Verdiani 7
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(1991[1992]): 79-110.
“Il libretto di Berio per l’Otello di Rossini.” Bollettino del Centro Rossiniano di Studi 31(1991): 55-76.
“Verdi’s Composition of I masnadieri: A Newly-Discovered Version of Francesco’s Cabaletta, ‘Tremate, o
miseri’.” The Opera Journal 24/1 (1991): 19-43.
Book Series and Journals Edited
Verdi Forum (journal), Editor-in-chief, 2004-present; Co-editor, 2003-2004; Associate Editor, 2000-2003.
Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera. Series Editor. Farnham: Ashgate Press, 2007-present. Volumes
to date:
•Grand Opera Outside Paris: Opera on the Move in Nineteenth-Century Europe, ed. Jens
Hesselager, forthcoming
•The Grand Theatre of the World: Music, Space, and the Performance of Identity in Early Modern
Rome, ed. Valeria De Lucca and Christine Jeanneret, forthcoming
•Made for the Stage: The Operas of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1673-1686), by Antonia Banducci,
forthcoming
•“Most Grateful Deceptions of the Sight”: English Dramatick Opera, 1661–1706, by Andrew
Walkling, forthcoming
•The Operas of Rameau: Genesis, Staging, Reception, ed. Graham Sadler, Shirley Thompson, and
Jonathan Williams, forthcoming
•Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera, ed. Wendy Heller and Eleonora
Stoppino, forthcoming
•Gustav Holst and British Operatic Culture in the Early Twentieth Century, by Christopher Scheer,
forthcoming
•Myths of National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera, by Michael Halliwell, forthcoming
•German Opera and Morality in Late Eighteenth-Century Vienna, by Martin Nedbal, in press
•Masque and Opera in Restoration England, by Andrew Walkling, in press
•Grétry’s Operas and the French Public from the Old Regime to the Restoration, by R. J. Arnold,
2015
•The Business of Opera, ed. Anastasia Belina-Johnson and Derek B. Scott, 2015
•Post-Opera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, by Jelena Novak, 2015
•Musicality in Theatre, by David Roesner, 2014
•Readying Cavalli’s Operas for the Stage, ed. Ellen Rosand, 2013
•Performing Salome, Revealing Stories, ed. Claire Rowden, 2013
•Opera as Soundtrack, by Jeongwon Joe, 2013
•Opera, Theatrical Culture and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples, by Anthony R.
DelDonna, 2012
•Modernism and the Cult of Mountains: Music, Opera, Cinema, by Christopher Morris, 2012
•Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment, by Millie Taylor, 2012
•Melodramatic Voices: Understanding Music Drama, ed. Sarah Hibberd, 2011
•Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures, ed. Pamela Karantonis and
Dylan Robinson, 2011
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The Works of Giuseppe Verdi. General Editor: Francesco Izzo, 2014-present; Philip Gossett, until 2014;
Associate General Editor: Roberta Montemorra Marvin. University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi,
2006-2015. Volumes edited:
•Giovanna d’Arco, 2008 [performed by Chicago Opera Theatre, spring 2013]
•Attila, 2012 [premiered at Metropolitan Opera, New York, Riccardo Muti, conductor, 2010]
•Un giorno di regno, in press [performed by Sarasota Opera, 2013]
•I Lombardi alla Prima crociata, in preparation
Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Guest co-editor, with Robert Ketterer (University of Iowa, Classics) for
special issue on opera and the ancient world. In preparation.
Cambridge Opera Journal. Guest co-editor (with Alexandra Wilson, Oxford Brookes University,
Musicology) for special issue on opera reception, vol. 25, no. 2 (2013).
Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies (six volumes). Series Editor. Farnham: Ashgate Press, 2010.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review. Guest sole editor for special issue on ottocento opera, vol. 7, no. 2
(2010).
Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries
“Giuseppe Verdi.” The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia. Edited by Nicholas Vazsonyi. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Fifty+ entries, including I masnadieri, in The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia. Edited by Roberta
Montemorra Marvin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
“Giuseppe Verdi.” The New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed., 2011 supplement. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale
Cengage Learning, 2011.
“Giuseppe Verdi.” Censorship: A World Encyclopedia, IV: 2563-2566. Edited by Derek Jones, 4 vols.
London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001 [2002].
Eighteen entries on composers. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd ed. Edited by
Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. 29 vols. London: Macmillan, 2001.
“Giuseppe Verdi, Operas: Staging.” Reader’s Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. Edited by
Murray Steib. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
“Filippo Colini.” The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, I: 900. Edited by Stanley Sadie. 4 vols. London:
Macmillan, 1992.
Essays in Opera House Program Books
Sarasota Opera, program book for The Verdi Cycle: Grand Finale, 2016: “Verdi before Opera,” pp. 12-13.
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Program Book 2015: “The Mastery of Verdi’s Un ballo in
maschera” (published in Dutch and French).
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Barcelona Opera House Amics del Liceu (Friends of the Liceu) Season Book 2014-2015: “Verdi’s Violetta:
Vixen or Victim?” (published in Catalan).
Royal Opera House Programme Books, London, England, for Verdi’s operas:
•“Coming to Terms with Il trovatore in Victorian London,” forthcoming
•“The Domestication of La traviata,” for La traviata: 2016, 38-43; 2015, 39-44; 2014, 39-45; 2012,
pp. 39-45; 2010, pp. 39-43; 2008, pp. 43-49; 2006, pp. 33-38
• “Verdi and Shakespeare,” for Macbeth: (in Japanese translation for the company’s Japan tour)
2015; 2011, pp. 35-38; 2006, pp. 35-38
•“Verdi’s Otello: Tradition in Disguise,” for Otello: 2005, pp. 24-29
•“A Question of Quality?: The Reception of Luisa Miller,” for Luisa Miller: 2003, pp. 14-22
•“‘Fiasco’ or ‘Furore’: I masnadieri in England and Italy,” for I masnadieri: 2002, pp. 37-41
•“A Long and Complex Gestation: The Birth of I masnadieri,” for I masnadieri: 2002, pp. 13-17
Santa Fe Opera: “Verdi’s Violetta: Vixen or Victim?” For La traviata, commissioned 2002.
Giuseppe Verdi: I masnadieri, Teatro Massimo; pp. 9-19. Palermo, Italy: Teatro Massimo, 2001.“La genesi
dell’edizione critica de I masnadieri” (“The Genesis of the Critical Edition of Verdi’s I masnadieri”).
Reviews
A History of Opera, by C. Abbate and R. Parker (W. W. Norton). Journal of Musicological Research 33/3
(2014): 358-360.
Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880, by J. Hall-Witt (University of New
Hampshire). Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39/3 (2008): 417-419.
Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (recording). Nineteenth-Century Music Review 5/1 (2008): 160-163.
Vincenzo Bellini nel secondo centenario della nascita: Atti del Convegno internazionale (2001), ed. G.
Seminara and A. Tedesco, 2 vols. (Olschki). Music & Letters 88 (2007): 158-160.
Il viaggio a Reims, ed. J. Johnson, and Semiramide, ed. P. Gossett and A. Zedda. Edizione critica delle
opere di Gioachino Rossini (Fondazione Rossini). Journal of the American Musicological Society 59
(2006): 202-215.
Verdi-Studien: Pierluigi Petrobelli zum 60 Geburtstag, ed. S. Döhring and W. Osthoff (Ricordi). Music &
Letters 83 (2002): 474-476.
Verdi in Performance, ed. R. Parker and A. Latham (Oxford). Journal of Musicological Research 21
(2002): 359-363.
Giuseppe Verdi, Sacred music (multiple recordings). The Choral Journal 42 (April 2002): 91-94.
“Verdi Scholarship at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century.” Review essay. Nineteenth-Century
Studies 15 (2001): 89-97.
Max Bruch, Oratorios (multiple recordings). The Choral Journal 40 (December 2000): 80-81.
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R. Parker, Leonora’s Last Act (Princeton University). Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association 55
(1999): 914-916.
H. Busch, Verdi’s “Falstaff” in Letters and Documents (Indiana University). Notes: Journal of the Music
Library Association 55 (1999): 917-918.
Gioachino Rossini, Musique anodine; Album italiano, ed. M. Tartak. Edizione critica delle opere di
Gioachino Rossini (Fondazione Rossini). Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association 55 (1999): 1005-
1007.
Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah (multiple recordings). The Choral Journal 39 (February 1999): 81-84.
Giuseppe Verdi, Messa da Requiem (multiple recordings). The Choral Journal 32 (September 1998): 53-
56.
T. G. Kaufman, Verdi and His Major Contemporaries: A Selected Chronology of Performances with Casts
(Garland). Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association 47 (1992): 113-115.
Translations
Several entries (from Italian and French). Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2013.
Abstracts (from Italian). Verdi 2001: Atti del Convegno Internazionale. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2003.
“Appendix: Verdi and Tannhäuser,” by Marcello Conati (from Italian). Verdi Forum 28-29 (2001-2002):
42-44.
Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani (Parma), 2002, 2000, 1988-1989. Various publications (translations
from Italian).
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Conference Presentations, Lectures, Colloquia
(refereed = §; invited = *)
2018 *North American British Music Studies Association Fifth Biennial Conference: invited speaker for
Senior scholars Panel titled “Border sand Boundaries”
2018 §University of Massachusetts Interdisciplinary Seminar ‘Dissent”: “Verdi’s Inno della nazioni, a
Weapon of Art”
2017 University of Massachusetts Philio Bezanson Centenary celebration: “The Life and Legacy of
Philip T. Bezanson: A Retrospective”
2017 *Interpreting Shakespeare: A Celebration of Poetic Reception: “Othello as Otello: Shakespeare,
Rossini, and Verdi”
2017 *Music and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain, King’s College / European Research
Council Symposium: Notions of Verdi in Victorian Britain”
2017 §American Musicological Society, New England Chapter: “Notions of Verdi in Victorian Britain”
2016 §North American British Music Studies Association Fourth Biennial Conference: “Notions of Verdi
in Victorian England”
2016 *Sarasota Opera Conference “The Score and Beyond: Performing, Staging, and Experiencing
Verdi”: “Getting to Know Verdi in Victorian Britain”
2015 §Fourth Biennial North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music: “Aida in Victorian
London”
2015 *University of Iowa Performance Studies Colloquium, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies:
“What was Jenny Lind Performing?”
2015 University of Iowa Opera Studies Forum, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies: “Aida and Don
Carlos Go to London”
2015 §Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference: “Sense, Sensibility, and Victorian Perceptions
of Verdian Opera”
2013 *“Traces of Performance: Opera, Music Theatre, and Theatre Music in the Long Nineteenth
Century” International Symposium, organized by the Academy of Finland, the Nordic Research
Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius
Academy (Finland), keynote lecture (invitation declined for personal reasons)
2013 *University of Iowa Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Working Group,
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, colloquium: “Marketing Verdi in Victorian London”
2012 *Finnish Literary Society Conference (Finland): “Traditionalism and Modernism in Portraying
Prima Donnas in Victorian London,” keynote lecture
2012 *Finnish Network for the Study of Nordic Operatic Culture Workshop (Finland): “Operatic
Migrations: What? How? Why?”
2012 *University of Wisconsin, Madison, Musicology Colloquium: “Coming to Terms with Jenny Lind in
Victorian England”
2012 *Northwestern University Musicology Colloquium: “Coming to Terms with Jenny Lind in Victorian
England”
2012 *“Love to Death”: Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association (Wales): Roundtable
participant on “Staging Opera”
2012 *Bird Lecture Series, Cardiff University (Wales): “Jenny Lind as Commercial Entity”
2012 *Catholic University of America Musicology Colloquium: “The Politics of Verdi’s Cantica”
2012 *Visiting International Fellow Lecture, Oxford Brookes University (UK): “Music, Political
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Propaganda, and National Pride: Verdi’s Inno delle nazioni, a ‘Weapon of Art’” 2010 §North American British Music Studies Association Fourth Biennial Conference: “Coming to
Terms with Jenny Lind in Victorian England”
2010 §North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (Canada): ”Perspectives on Operatic
Celebrity in Victorian England”
2010 §Sixteenth Annual Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): “Coming to Terms with Jenny
Lind in Victorian England”
2010 *University College London Interdisciplinary Workshop “Game Theory, Drama, and Opera”
(UK): “Verdi’s Otello and Iago’s ‘Game’”
2010 §Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference: “Coming to Terms with Jenny Lind in
Victorian England”
2010 §Royal Musical Association Annual Conference (UK): “Verdi and the Italian Musical Tradition”
2010 *Chicago Opera Theater, Symposium on Rossini’s “Mosé in Egitto”: “Between the Devil and Holy
Water: The History of Lenten Opera in Naples”
2010 *University of Chicago Opera Symposium in honor of Philip Gossett: Respondent for panels on
textual criticism and opera performance
2009 *University of Iowa International Programs Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies
Interdisciplinary Colloquium: “‘Veiled beneath the simplest guise’: Idealizing the Prima donna in
Mid-Victorian London”
2008 *Società Italiana di Musicologia and Conservatorio di Musica “G. Verdi”di Milano Bicentenary
Celebration Conference (Italy): “Envisioning a National Musical Identity: Verdi’s Italian ‘Music of
the Future’”
2008 §North American British Music Studies Association Third Biennial Conference (Canada): “The
Victorian Violetta: The Social Messages of La traviata”
2008 §American Musicological Society Annual Meeting: “Idealizing the Prima Donna in Mid-Victorian
London”
2008 §“Music, Body, and Stage: The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera” Conference of the
Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale and the Research Center for Music Iconography,
The City University of New York Graduate Center (New York): “Visual Imagery and the Prima
Donnas of Mid-Victorian London: The Illustrated London News, A Case in Point”
2007 §Sixth Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (UK): “‘Veiled beneath the
simplest guise’: The Iconography of the Prima Donna in Mid-Victorian London”
2007 §Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference: “Domesticating Verdi: Italian Opera and
Victorian Sensibilities”
2007 §North American Victorian Studies Association Conference (Canada): “‘Veiled beneath the
simplest guise’: The Role of Iconography in Creating the Prima Donna in Mid-Victorian London”
2006 *“Staging the Feminine: The Arts of the Prima Donna” Symposium (UK): “The Role of
Iconography in Creating the Prima Donna in Victorian London: The Illustrated London News, A
Case in Point”
2006 *Institute for Historical Research, “Music and Social History” Seminar (London): “Music, Political
Propaganda, and National Pride: Verdi’s Inno delle nazioni, a ‘Weapon of Art’” 2006 *University of Leeds Musicology Seminar (UK): “Music, Political Propaganda, and National Pride:
Verdi’s Inno delle nazioni, a ‘Weapon of Art’” 2006 §North American British Music Studies Association Second Biennial Conference (USA): “Verdi’s
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Inno delle nazioni and the 1862 London International Exhibition”
2005 §American Musicological Society Annual Meeting: “Forging ‘Weapons of Art’: Verdi, Toscanini,
and the Inno delle nazioni Across Two Centuries”
2005 §Fifth Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (UK): “Verdi’s Inno delle
nazioni and the 1862 London International Exhibition: A Case of National Pride and International
Intrigue”
2005 *Royal Academy of Music (London) “Music and Performance in Nineteenth-Century Britain”
Lecture Series: “Verdi’s Operas in the Victorian Parlor”
2005 *University of London, Royal Holloway, Musicology Colloquium: “Verdi’s ‘Music of the Future’”
2005 *Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, King’s College, Colloquium Series (London): “Verdi’s
‘Italian’ Music”
2005 §University of Iowa Stanley International Programs - Obermann Center Research Fellow
University Lecture: “Music, Political Propaganda, and National Pride: Verdi’s Inno delle nazioni, a
‘Weapon of Art’” 2004 §Thirteenth Annual Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): “The ‘Real’ Thing?: Verdi’s
Operas in the Victorian Parlor”
2004 §Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference (USA): “The ‘Real’ Thing?:
Verdi’s Operas in the Victorian Parlor”
2004 *Stanford University Musicology Colloquium: “Envisioning a National Musical Identity: Verdi’s
Italian ‘Music of the Future’”
2003 §Fourth Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (UK): “Handel’s Acis and
Galatea: A Victorian View”
2003 §Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society Meeting: “Verdi’s ‘Italian’ Music:
Nationalism and Music Education in Secondo Ottocento Italy”
2003 *American Handel Society International Conference: “Handel’s Acis and Galatea: A Victorian
View”
2002 §American Musicological Society Annual Meeting: “Envisioning a National Musical Identity:
Verdi’s ‘Music of the Future’”
2002 *University of Cambridge Colloquium (UK): “Verdian Opera Adaptations and Theatrical Culture in
Mid-Century Victorian London”
2002 *University of Oxford Colloquium (UK): “Verdian Opera Burlesqued: A Glimpse into Mid-
Victorian Theatrical Culture”
2002 §Royal Musical Association Annual Conference (UK): “The Dissemination of Verdi’s Music
Outside the Theaters of Victorian London”
2002 *Twelfth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): “Burlesques, Barriers,
Borders, and Boundaries”
2002 *University of Iowa Opera Studies Group and School of Music Musicology and Theory Colloquium:
“Verdian Opera Burlesqued: A Glimpse into Mid-Victorian Theatrical Culture”
2001 *Pre-performance lecture for the premiere of my critical edition of Verdi’s I masnadieri (Teatro
Massimo, Palermo, Italy): “Un viaggio dei masnadieri attraverso gli orecchi di un musicista
ottocentesco” (“The Voyage of the masnadieri through the Ears of a Nineteenth-Century
Musician”)
2001 §Third Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (UK): “Reflections of Art and
Society: Comic Adaptations of Verdi’s La traviata and Il trovatore on the Stages of Victorian
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London”
2001 §“Textual Intersections in the Nineteenth Century”Conference (UK): “Reflections of Art and
Society: Comic Adaptations of Verdi’s La traviata and Il trovatore on the Stages of Victorian
London”
2001 *University of London, Royal Holloway, Musicology Colloquium (UK): “Victorian Decorum,
English Censorship, and Verdi’s Operas”
2001 *University of Southampton Musicology Colloquium (UK): “Verdi’s Cultural Patriotism” 2001 §Convegno internazionale “Verdi 2001” (Italy and USA): “Reflections of Art and Society:
Adaptations of Verdi’s La traviata and Il trovatore on the Stages of Victorian London”
2001 *“Primal Scenes: Staging and Interpreting Verdi’s Operas” Conference (University of California,
Berkeley): “Verdian Opera Burlesqued: A Glimpse into Mid-Victorian Theatrical Culture”
2001 *Catholic University of America, Lecture: “Preparing a Critical Edition of Verdi’s Operas”
2001 *Boston University Music Colloquium: “Victorian Decorum, English Censorship, and Verdi’s
Operas”
2001 §Northeast Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference (USA): “‘Celestial Bodies’ and ‘An
Erring Sister’s Shame’: Victorian Decorum, Censorship, and Verdi’s Operas”
2001 §Nineteenth-Century Studies Association National Conference, “The Century of Victoria and
Verdi” (USA): “‘Celestial Bodies’ and ‘An Erring Sister’s Shame’: Victorian Decorum,
Censorship, and Verdi’s Operas”
2001 *University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Musicology Colloquium: “Victorian Decorum, English
Censorship, and Verdi’s Operas”
2001 *University of Iowa International Programs Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies
Interdisciplinary Colloquium: “‘Celestial Bodies’ and ‘An Erring Sister’s Shame’: Victorian
Decorum, English Censorship, and Verdi’s Operas”
2000 §International Conference on Censorship (UK): “The Censorship of Verdi’s Operas in Victorian
London”
2000 §Eleventh International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): “Rossini’s Petite Messe
solennelle: Its Journey to Italy”
2000 §American Musicological Society Annual Meeting: “Celestial Bodies and ‘An Erring Sister’s
Shame’: Victorian Decorum, Censorship, and Verdi’s Operas”
2000 *University of Colorado Musicology Colloquium: “The Censorship of Verdi’s Operas in Victorian
London”
2000 *University of Kansas Musicology Colloquium: “The Censorship of Verdi’s Operas in Victorian
London”
1999 §British Musicological Societies Conference: “Envisioning a National Musical Identity: Giuseppe
Verdi and Music Education in Secondo Ottocento Italy”
1999 *Second Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (UK): “The Censorship of
Verdi’s Operas in Victorian London”
1999 *DEI-Middlesex University, Music Seminar / Lecture (Greece): “Verdi’s Sinfonia in D Major”
1999 §Fifth Annual Women’s Studies Conference (USA): “Verdi’s Violetta: Vixen or Victim?”
1998 §Tenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): “The Censorship of Verdi’s
Operas in Victorian London”
1998 *City University, London, Graduate Musicology Research Seminar (UK): “Maria Luigia as
Patroness of Music: Archival Research Techniques”
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1998 §Royal Musical Association Annual Conference (UK): “Schiller’s Die Ra"uber and Verdi’s I
masnadieri: Andrea Maffei’s ‘Ugly Sin’”
1998 *Loyola University Biever Lecturer (New Orleans): “Verdi and Shakespeare”
1998 *Louisiana State University Musicology Colloquium (Baton Rouge): “The Musical-Dramatic
Language of Verdi’s Otello”
1998 §Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society Meeting: “Verdi’s Otello: A Musical
Homage to Rossini?”
1998 *University of Iowa School of Music Musicology Colloquium: “The Censorship of Verdi’s Operas
in Victorian London”
1997 §International Musicological Society Sixteenth Congress (London): “The Stornello and Its
Popularity in Ottocento Italy”
1997 *Rutgers University Musicology Colloquium: “Verdi and the Art of Dramatic Composition”
1997 *“Verdi and Censorship” Conference (New York): “Censorship of Verdi’s Operas Outside Italy”
1997 §Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society : “Andrea Maffei’s ‘Final Sacrifice’: A
Study in the Genesis of the Libretto for Verdi’s I masnadieri”
1997 *University of Iowa School of Music Musicology Colloquium : “Aspects of Tempo in Verdi’s
Operas”
1997 *University of Iowa School of Music Musicology Colloquium: “Verdi Learns to Compose: The
Teachings of Bonifazio Asioli”
1996 §Ninth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): “A Tale of Two Singers: Italo
Gardoni, Jenny Lind, and Verdi”
1996 §Royal Musical Association and Society for Music Analysis British Musicology Conference (UK):
“Music at the Court of Maria Luigia, Duchess of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla”
1996 *“Austria, 996-1996: Music in a Changing Society” International Musicology Conference
(Canada): “Music in Parma During the Reign of Maria Luigia”
1996 *Florida State University Musicology Colloquium and Class lectures: “A Tale of Three Singers:
Jenny Lind, Italo Gardoni, Filippo Coletti, and Giuseppe Verdi” and “Preghiere, Brindisi, and
Giuramenti in the Operas of Verdi”
1996 §Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society: “Verdi’s Unwritten Operas”
1995 §Maynooth International Musicology Conference (Ireland): “Verdi’s Unwritten Operas”
1995 *Wayne (New Jersey) Chamber Orchestra pre-concert lecture: “The Discovery of Verdi’s Sinfonia
in D Major”
1995 §New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society: “Verdi Learns to Compose: The
Writings of Bonifazio Asioli”
1995 *Heritage Academy, George Hazard Lecturer (Mississippi):”Verdi’s Creative Process”
1995 *University of Kentucky Musicology Colloquium: “Verdi Learns to Compose”
1995 §Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society: “Verdi Learns to Compose: The
Writings of Bonifazio Asioli”
1994 *International Congress of Verdi Studies (Italy): “Ottocento Liriche da Camera”: a concert of songs
by Verdi and his contemporaries organized; historical and analytical commentary provided in
Italian
1994 §Royal Musical Association Annual Conference (UK): “Verdi Learns to Compose: The Writings of
Bonifazio Asioli”
1994 §Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society: “Aspects of Tempo in Verdi’s Early and
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Middle Period Operas”
1993 §Royal Musical Association and British Society for Music Analysis Conference (UK): “Artistic
Concerns and Practical Considerations in the Composition of I masnadieri”
1993 *Belfast International Verdi Congress (Northern Ireland): “Aspects of Tempo in Verdi’s Operas”
1993 §American Musicological Society Annual Meeting: “Andrea Maffei’s ‘Final Sacrifice’: A Study in
the Genesis of the Libretto for Verdi’s I masnadieri”
1992 §Fifteenth Congress of the International Musicological Society (Spain): “Verdi’s Tempo
Assignments: I masnadieri: A Case in Point”
1992 §New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society: “Verdi’s Tempo Assignments: I
masnadieri: A Case in Point”
1991 *American Institute for Verdi Studies and Greater New York Chapter of the American
Musicological Society: “Verdi’s Artistic Concerns and Practical Considerations in I masnadieri: A
Newly Discovered Version of Francesco’s Cabaletta “Tremate, o miseri!”
1990 §New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society: “Artistic Concerns and Practical
Considerations in the Composition of I masnadieri: A Newly Discovered Version of Francesco’s
Cabaletta “Tremate, o miseri!”
1990 *“Celebration of Puccini” Symposium (University of Rhode Island): “Behind the Scenes and
Beyond the Footlights: Opera Production and Performance in Ottocento Italy”
1989 *Harvard University Musicology Colloquium: “Verdi’s Artistic Concerns and Practical
Considerations in the Composition of I masnadieri”
1987 §New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society: “Verdi’s Otello: A Musical
Homage to Rossini?”
Performance-Related Activities
Selected performances of my critical edition of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera I masnadieri
2019 Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
2018 Opera, Rome, Italy
2013 Teatro Regio, Parma, Italy
2012 Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy
2003 Teatro Comunale, Bologna, Italy
2001 Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Italy (premiere)
Selected performances of my edition of Giuseppe Verdi’s Sinfonia in D Major
2016 Sarasota Opera Orchestra, Victor De Renzi, conductor
2000 Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy, Riccardo Muti, conductor
1998 Orquesta Sinfónica of the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, Sergio Espinosa, conductor
(Mexican premiere)
1995 Wayne Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey, Murray Colosimo, conductor (U.S. premiere)
1995 Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Emilia-Romagna “Arturo Toscanini,” Salsomaggiore (Parma), Italy
(twentieth-century world premiere)
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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
Scholarly Journals and Presses
Editorial Boards
•The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, 2014-present
•Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 2002-present
•Verdi Forum (formerly Verdi Newsletter), 2000-present
•Ars Lyrica, 2005
•Grout / Palisca / Burkholder, History of Western Music, 7th edition
•Current Musicology, corresponding editor, 1991-1992
Referee / Reviewer
•Journal of the American Musicological Society (multiple times)
•Cambridge University Press (multiple times)
•University of Chicago Press (multiple times)
•Nineteenth-Century Music Review (multiple times)
•Cambridge Opera Journal (multiple times)
•Music & Letters
•Oxford University Press
•Ashgate Press (multiple times)
•University of California Press
•Finnish DocMus Research Series
•Mayfield Publishing
•Schirmer Books
Lecture Series, Conferences, and Professional Seminars Organized
2016 “Operatic Reflections and Reverberations, Britain, 1800-1851.” Symposium in preparation for a co-
edited volume of essays (Opera Outside the Box), co-organizer
2009- “The Metropolitan Opera in Iowa.” A lecture series for the general public coordinated with the Met
2016 Live in HD theater series, funded in part (2010-2011) by Humanities Iowa, the Iowa division of the
National Endowment for the Humanities
2014 North American British Music Studies Association Biennial Conference, program chair
2013 “Verdi’s Third Century: Italian Opera Today.” American Institute for Verdi Studies Conference
(New York), program committee member
2013 “The Idea of Art Music in a Commercial World.” Two workshops in preparation for a co-edited
essay volume, co-coordinator
2007 “Interdisciplinarity and Opera.” University of Iowa Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting
Professorship Lecture Series by Herbert Lindenberger: proposer and coordinator
2004 “Viewing Opera Through a Humanistic Lens.” University of Iowa Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished
Visiting Professorship Lecture Series by Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon: proposer and
coordinator
2001 “Perspectives on the Music of Verdi.” University of Iowa Distinguished International Lecture
Series by Julian Budden, Philip Gossett, Roger Parker, Pierluigi Petrobelli: proposer and
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coordinator
2001 “Opera in Context.” University of Iowa Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Summer Research
Seminar: co-director with Downing Thomas
2001 Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, Celebrazioni Verdiane 2001, member of Comitato Scientifico
per il Convegno Internazionale Verdi 2001, 1999-2001
1997 Southern Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society (University of Alabama):
conference organizer and local arrangements chair
Conference Sessions Organized and/or Chaired
2016 Fifth Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association: chair for paper
session titled “Musical Personalities”
2016 “The Score and Beyond: Performing, Staging, and Experiencing Verdi”: Sarasota Opera
Conference: chair for paper session “Verdi’s Music, Verdi’s Theater”
2015 “Editing Early Opera”: Pre-conference Colloquium for joint Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
and American Handel Society Annual Conference: organizer and moderator
2012 “Love to Death” Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association (Wales): chair for paper
session on Puccini
2012 North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference: chair for paper session
2010 Fourth Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association: chair for
paper session
2007 Sixth Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (UK): session chair
2006 “Staging the Feminine” Symposium (UK): co-moderator for session on future planning for
research/projects
2005 Fifth Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain (UK): opera session chair
2005 American Council on Education Internationalization Collaborative Annual Meeting: discussion
facilitator for roundtable titled “Internationalizing the Curriculum”
2004 Thirteenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): 1) organizer, proposer,
and presenter for session titled “Musical Mutations;” 2) chair for session titled “Italian Opera”
2004 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association National Conference: 1) moderator,
organizer, proposer, and presenter for session titled “Musical Mutations;” 2) music plenary session
chair
2003 American Handel Society National Conference: session chair
2001 Convegno internazionale “Verdi 2001”: chair for two sessions, 1) “Verdi’s French Operas” and 2)
“Verdian Heroes and Heroines”
2001 Midwest American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies: music keynote session chair
2000 Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society: organizer, moderator, and panelist for
panel titled “Writing for the Profession”
1999 American Musicological Society National Meeting: co-organizer and co-moderator for two panels,
1) “Professional Etiquette and the Job Market” and 2) “Writing for the Profession”
1998 Tenth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): organizer, proposer, and
presenter for session on “Verdi and Censorship”
1998 American Musicological Society National Meeting: organizer and moderator for panel on “Careers
in Musicology: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century”
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1998 Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society: session chair
1997 American Musicological Society National Meeting: co-organizer and co-moderator for panel titled
“The Juggling Act: Musicology Faculty Positions in the 1990s”
1997 Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society: session chair
1996 Southern Chapter of the College Music Society: session chair
1996 Southern Chapter of the American Musicological Society: session chair
1995 Maynooth International Musicology Conference (Ireland): session chair
1994 Eighth International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (UK): session chair
Consultancies / Reviews (grants, tenure and promotion), etc.
Consultant, National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations, grant submission
from the University of Chicago Press for “The Works of Giuseppe Verdi,” 2014 (funded, $260,000)
Consultant, Reef Television for the BBC (London, UK), Victorian culture documentary, 2014
Reviewer, American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grants, 2012-2016
Review panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2013, 2007-2008, 2005-2006
Reviewer, Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research, Funding Schemes, 2012-2013
Evaluator, Italian Research Assessment Exercise (Italian Ministry of Education), 2012
Consultant, “Opera on the Move in the Nordic Countries,” grant submission from the Sibelius Academy,
Helsinki, Finland, 2012 (grant funded, 550,000 Euros)
Evaluator, European Research Council Grant Competitions, 2010-2013
Consultant, Center for Educational Policy Research, University of Oregon, 2003-2005
University of Iowa representative, Alliance for Education / Association of International Education
Administrators Legislative Advocacy for International Education Meetings, United States Congress,
Washington, D.C., 2005
Tenure/promotion reviews 2000-2013: Eastman School of Music, Tufts University, University of
Maryland, Northern Illinois University, University of Michigan
Professional Organizations
American Musicological Society, member 1984-present
National
Publications Committee 2015-2020 (appointed)
Nominated by the Society to stand for election as Director-at-Large, 2015
Program Committee for Annual Meeting 2011 (appointed)
Pisk Prize Committee 2007-2009, Chair 2009 (appointed)
Board of Directors / Society Officers Nominating Committee 2005 (appointed)
Committee on Career-Related Issues 1997-2001, Chair 2000, 2001(appointed)
Mid-West Chapter
Program Committee 1998-1999
Nominated for the office of Chapter Secretary 1997 (nomination declined)
Southern Chapter
Representative to the National Council 1996-1998
Secretary-Treasurer 1997-1999 (moved from chapter, term not served)
Abstracts Editor 1997
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Program Committee 1996, 1997
Local Arrangements Committee Chair 1997
New England Chapter
Representative to the National Council 1993
North American British Music Studies Association, member 2006-present
Program Committee, Chair for 2014 biennial conference, 2012-2014
Board of Directors (elected position) 2009-2012
Nominee, for President 2009, elected post (nomination declined)
Development Committee, 2011-2012
Local Arrangements Committee for biennial conference 2010
Nominating Committee 2006
American Institute for Verdi Studies, member 1984-present
Executive Board 2010-present
Advisory Board 1998-2009
Royal Musical Association, member 1993-present
Association of International Education Administrators, associate member 2012, 2005
North American Victorian Studies Association, member 2007-2013
Midwest Victorian Studies Association, member 2010, 2007
Fulbright Association, member 2009, 2005-2006, 1994-1997
Board of Directors, Alabama Chapter, 1996-1997
University of Alabama Campus Liaison to the State Chapter 1996-1997
College Music Society, member 1995-2008
Campus Representative, University of Iowa 2002-2003
Modern Language Association, member 2006-2007
National Association of Fellowship Advisors, member 2005-2006
Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education, member 2004-2006
International Musicological Society, member 1997-2004, 1987-1992
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, member 2003-2004
Nominated to stand for election to Board of Directors 2004
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, member 2003-2004
Northeast Victorian Studies Association, member 2001
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, member 1994-1997
The American Bach Society, member 1992-1997
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ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE TO ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS
University of Massachusetts
University Activities Faculty Senate Academic Matters Council, member 2017-present
Faculty Senate Academic Priorities Council, member 2017-present
National Association of Schools of Music, institutional representative, 2016-present
National Association of Music Executives in State Universities, institutional
representative, 2016-present
College of Humanities and Fine Arts Chairs Council, 2016-present
University of Iowa
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Activities Opera Studies Forum, Director 2014-present
Performance Studies Group, member 2014-2015
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Advisory Board 2003-2015
Research Associate 2009-2010
Research Scholar-in-Residence 2005-2009, 1998-2003
Graduate College Activities
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Graduate Student Professional Editor Seminar Series,
initiator, coordinator, presenter, 2015-2016
International Programs Activities Curricular
•Director of Graduate Studies, International Studies M.A., 2011-2012 (as Associate Dean)
•Curriculum oversight and faculty appointments, 2010-2012 (as Associate Dean)
Programmatic
•Opera Studies Forum (formerly Opera Studies Group), Founding Director, Director/Co-
Director 1999-2014
•Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Advisory Board
member 2001-2013
•European Studies Group, Co-Director August 2004-October 2005 and member 2004-
present [also Advisory Board Member 2004-2005; Lecture Committee member ex
officio 2004-2005 Curriculum Committee member ex officio 2004-2005; Founding
Committee member 2003-2004]
Administrative and General
•Executive Committee 2002-2012 (appointed)
•As Associate Dean (2010-2012), duties included (but were not limited to)
•Director for the Office of Academic Programs and Services
•Crossing Borders Executive Committee, ex officio member
•Global Health Studies Steering Committee, ex officio member
•International Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Chair
•International Programs Graduate Affairs Committee, Chair
•IP faculty awards review committees, Chair
•IP-Division of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures oversight
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Committee (2012), member
•International Studies B.A. Faculty Mentor 2003-present
•Provost’s Humanities Initiative Advisory Group, summer 2002
University Responsibilities
As Associate Dean of International Programs (2010-2012), committee service included (but was not
limited to)
•Associate Deans for Research
•Associate Deans and Directors for Undergraduate Education
•Associate Deans for Graduate Studies
Research Council, alternate member 2004-2005, regular member 1998-2001
•Subcommittee member
•for the development of internal funding for interdisciplinary projects 2001
•for the provision of travel funding for arts and humanities 2001
•for the formulation of procedural guidelines for the UI Arts and Humanities
Initiative competition 1999
•Liaison to Vice President for Research Advisory Committee for the Humanities 1998-1999
Council on Teaching, chair 2002-2003, member 2000-2003
Miscellaneous
•Fulbright Campus Interviews, review panelist, 2010, 2007, 2006
•Arts and Humanities Initiative Review Committee, consultant, 2006
•Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Advisor 2003-2005
•Committee for Review of Non-Resident Fees, member 2001-2003
•Faculty Senate Committee to establish University of Iowa Academy of Distinguished
Teachers, chair 2001-2002
•Lecture Committee1999-2001
•University Librarian Search Committee 1999-2000
•Library Symposium on “Scholarly Publishing in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences”
1998, opinion paper: “Issues of Concern to Junior Faculty”
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Committees
Faculty Assembly
•Nominating Committee 2002 (appointed by the Dean)
•Nominated (by Dean) as at-large CLAS member 2001 (nomination declined)
•School of Music Representative 1999-2002
Graduate Examination and Dissertation Committees, college-wide (details on request)
School of Music Responsibilities
Musicology Area
•Mentor/Consultant to Ph.D. candidates 2003-2008
•Area Head October 1998-May 2001
•Graduate Student Academic Advisor 2001-2003
•Course Schedule Facilitator 2001-2002
•Teaching Assistant Workshop, designer and coordinator 2000
School of Music
•Executive Committee 1999-2002, Secretary, fall 2000
•Graduate Committee 1998-2001
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•Junior Faculty Mentoring / Review / Tenure Committees 1999-2003
•Faculty Search Committees (Musicology, Theory)
•Library Committee, Chair 1997-1998
•Graduate Examination, Thesis, Dissertation, and Recital Committees (details on request)
University of Alabama
University Committees •Academic Advising Committee 1995-1997
•Fulbright Fellowship Fiftieth Anniversary Campus Committee 1995
College of Arts and Sciences Activities •Instruction Committee 1994-1997
•Dean’s Faculty Advisory Council 1994-1995
•Teaching and Course Evaluation Committee 1994-1995
•National Endowment for the Humanities Campus Screening Panel 1995, 1994
•Mentoring Program, Faculty Advisor 1995-1997
School of Music Responsibilities Administrative positions
•Director of Undergraduate Advising, 1993-1997
•Music History Area Head 1996-1997, Acting Head 1993-1994
•Faculty Advisor, B.A. in Music, B.A. in Music Administration, and music minors 1993-
1997
•Coordinator, Departmental Honors, 1994-1996
•Coordinator, activities for Endowed Chair in Music History 1996-1997 and 1993-1994
Committees
•Library 1993-1997, Chair 1996-1997
•Undergraduate Curriculum 1995-1997
•Chamber Music 1995-1996
•Graduate Council 1993-1995
•Graduate Recital, Examination, Thesis, and Dissertation Committees (details on request)
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Local and Regional
(related to University of Iowa)
Educational Outreach / Community Engagement
•Opera Studies Forum: lectures for “The Metropolitan Opera in Iowa” Lecture Series:
on Verdi’s Otello, 2015
on Verdi’s Rigoletto, 2013
on Verdi’s La traviata, 2012
on Verdi’s Il trovatore, 2011
•Senior College course: “The Art of Opera,” 2015
•Martha Ellen Tye Opera Theater, 2011:
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“The Many Faces of La traviata,” public pre-performance lecture
“Verdi’s Violetta: Vixen or Victim?” essay for printed program
•Choruses and Orchestras: essay on Verdi’s Pezzi sacri for printed program, 2001
•Chamber Orchestra: narrator for Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, 1999
•Choruses and Orchestra: program notes for Mendelssohn’s Elijah, 1998
Television and Radio
•“WorldCanvass,” “Cultural Memory and Commemoration: The Verdi and Wagner Bicentenaries,”
2013
•“WorldCanvass,” “Italian Culture,” discussion of Verdi and operatic culture in Italy, 2011
•KSUI / WSUI Fundraiser, co-host, 2004, 2001
•“Know the Score,” KSUI Public Radio program in conjunction with the performance of Verdi’s
Pezzi sacri by the University of Iowa Choruses, 2001
Local and Regional (not related to University of Iowa)
Cedar Rapids Opera Theater
Pre-Performance Lecture: “Why Tosca?” 2011
Board of Directors 2006-2009
Board Artistic Committee, Chair 2007-2009, Co-Chair, 2006-2007
Public reading group discussion facilitator 2005
External consultant for productions and grants 2009, 2006, 2003-2004
Pre-Performance Lecture: “Verdi’s Violetta: Victim or Vixen?” 2004
Pre-Performance Lecture: “Verdi’s Shakespearean Operas,” 2003
Planning committee for outreach events 2002-2003
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught / Developed
University of Iowa Graduate (for music students): •Opera Across the Centuries: Interpretation, Expression, Analysis
•Nineteenth-Century Music •Seminar: Operatic Convention and Verdi’s Late Style in Otello
and Falstaff •Introduction to Graduate Study in Music (research and bibliography)
•Introduction to Musicology •Seminar: The Reception of Musical Works from the
Eighteenth Century to the Present •The History of Opera •Advanced History and Literature
of Music II (1750-present) •Seminar: The Operas of Verdi •Seminar: Compositional Process
Through the Ages
Undergraduate (for music majors): •History of Music: 1750-present
Undergraduate: •The Arts and Human Rights (interdisciplinary) •Women and the Stage in
Victorian England (in preparation) •Politics and Music: Understanding Global Issues
Through Musical “Voices” (interdisciplinary)
First-Year Seminars: •Music, Meanings and Messages in Opera (International Studies,
interdisciplinary): taught in fall 2012, fall 2011, spring 2010 •Music, Conflict, Disaster,
Celebration, fall 2015, fall 2016 (interdisciplinary)
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University of Alabama Graduate: •Renaissance Music •Music of the Romantic Era •Twentieth-Century Music •History and
Literature of Opera •The Operas of Verdi •Seminar: Text and Music in the Nineteenth
Century •Seminar: The Aesthetics of Music •Seminar: The Historical Process of
Composition •Graduate History Review •Introduction to Music Research
Undergraduate (for music majors): •Music History III (19th and 20th centuries) •Honors Music
History III
Undergraduate (for non-majors): •Music of World Cultures (interdisciplinary) •Music Literature
(interdisciplinary)
Boston University
Graduate Level: •History of Italian Opera •Music Research and Bibliography Techniques •Seminar:
The Compositional Process •The Music of Mozart •History and Literature of Art Song
Tufts University Graduate (for non-music students): •Opera as Drama and Music (interdisciplinary seminar)
Undergraduate (for music majors): •History of Western Music (two-semester survey)
Undergraduate (for non-majors): •Introduction to Western Music (music appreciation) •The
Operas of Verdi (interdisciplinary) •The Creative Process in Music (interdisciplinary)
Guest Class Lectures
University of Iowa
Musicology Graduate Student Study Group, guest speaker and coordinator for seminar on
academic publishing, 2016 (by invitation)
Musicology Graduate Student Study Group, guest speaker (on my research) 2015 (by
invitation)
Music Editing Seminar, guest lecturer 2015 (by invitation)
Literature, Music, and Aesthetics Seminar, 2004: Puccini’s La bohème and Rent
Nationalism and Music, 1999: “Verdi and Musical Nationalism”
Flute Seminar, 1998: “The Teachings of Marcel Moyse”
Twenty-Fourth Annual Honor Choir Festival 1998: “Giuseppe Verdi: ‘Father of Choruses’”
University of Alabama
Introduction to Graduate Studies, 1996, 1994: “Research Methodologies in Musicology”
Crimson Music Camp, 1996: “The English Madrigal”
German Romanticism and Its European Context (undergraduate),1996: “Music and
Romanticism: An Overview”
Music Convocation, 1995: “Joe Green’s Wastebasket”
German Romanticism and Its European Context (graduate),1995: “Musical Romanticism
and Romantic Music”
Humanities Undergraduate Seminar, 1996, 1995: “The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi”
Music Convocation, 1993: “Opera in Nineteenth-Century Italy: Behind the Scenes and
Beyond the Footlights”
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Ph.D. Dissertations and M.A. / B.A.-Honors Theses Advised
(all at University of Iowa, supervised as primary advisor or co-advisor)
Jeanne Thompson, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Studies (Music and Cultural History), 2005: “Creating a Dutch
National Opera: Opera in The Netherlands during The German Occupation, 1940-45”
Kyle Gassiott, M.A., Musicology, 2004: “The Women of Brucemore and the Wagnerian Gilded Age”
Rainer Weissenberger, M.A., Musicology, 2004: “Aesthetics and the Emerging Autonomy of the Musical
Arts as Delineated in Multiple Lied Settings of Two Mignon Poems by Carl Friedrich Zelter”
Jama Stilwell, Ph.D., Musicology, 2003: “‘A Story Altogether Foolish, Bizarre, and Buffoonish’: The
Théâtres de la foires and the Eighteenth-Century Captivity Opera” (Professor, Music, Cornell
College)
Heather Foote, M.A., Musicology, 2003: “Bombastic Baritones and Scheming Sopranos: Character Profiles
of Falstaff and Alice in Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff”
Jennifer Jackson, M.A., Musicology, 2001: “Musical Style as a Representation of Social Milieu: The 1927
Premieres of Ernst Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf and Erich Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane”
Margaret Darby, B.M., Violoncello Performance (Honors Thesis), 2001: “Verdi’s String Quartet”
Christopher Scheer, B.A., Oboe Performance (Honors Thesis), 2000: “Gustav Holst’s The Perfect Fool”
(Ph.D., Musicology, University of Michigan; Associate Professor, Utah State University)
Jana LaHood, D.M.A., Piano Performance, 2000: “Composers as Critics: Two Case Studies of the
Reception History of the Romantic Piano Sonata”
Additional Instructional Activities
University of Iowa
University of Iowa Graduate College, Center for Teaching and Learning, and International
Programs: Professional Etiquette Seminar Series, initiator, coordinator, presenter, 2015-
2016
University of Iowa Musicology Study Group, participant 2014-2016
Designed and taught grant-writing workshops on Fulbright Fellowships, general grant opportunities
and proposals for Engineering, Computer Science, Art History; Honors Program, College of
Education, Crossing Borders Seminar, Global Health Studies Program, 2003-2005
Participant, University of Iowa’s session of the national teaching workshop “Standards for Success”
(by invitation), 2001
Assisted the Woodwind and Brass Areas in redesigning the Performance Research Seminar, 1999
Redesigned the Graduate Music History Advisory Examination, 1998
