Visiting Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York; B.A./M.A., Yale University.

Biographical Information: Completed Ph.D. with a dissertation on a twentieth-century Italian opera, entitled “Text, Music, and Drama in Dallapiccola’s ‘Il prigioniero’” (2005).  Conference paper on text and twelve-tone process in the opera was recently presented at the national meeting of the Society for Music Theory (2006).  Since spring 2005 she has been visiting assistant professor of music theory at Wellesley. Besides music fundamentals and tonal harmony and form, she has also taught on issues in twentieth-century Italian music, including opera, film, the interaction between art and music, and popular music traditions. Previous experience as teaching assistant at Harvard (2000-03), where she twice earned awards for excellence in teaching, and as lecturer at Yale (2000).

Research interests: Twentieth-century Italian music and its historical context, European and American twelve-tone music, the mutual influence between twentieth-century Italian and American composers, text-music issues, and the interaction between performance and analysis.