Colloquy: Sexual Violence in Opera: Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Production as Resistance

SUZANNE G. CUSICK is Professor of Music at New York University. She has published extensively on gender, sexuality, and violence in musical culture. Her scholarly work has been recognized by awards from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, the AMS LGBTQ Study Group, the American Council of Learned Studies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. An honorary member of both the AMS and the Society for Ethnomusicology, she is President-Elect of the AMS.

MONICA A. HERSHBERGER is Assistant Professor of Music at Central Connecticut State University. Her research focuses on the convergence of nationalism and feminism in mid-twentieth-century American opera, and has been recognized by the National Opera Association (winner of the 2015 Scholarly Paper Competition) and the Society for American Music (2018 Virgil Thomson Fellowship). She is currently expanding her PhD dissertation, “‘Life Is Strife’: American Operatic Heroines during the Cold War,” into a book.

RICHARD WILL is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Virginia. He is the author of many publications on eighteenth-century music, and the coeditor of Engaging Haydn: Culture, Context, and Criticism (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is currently writing a book on audio and video recordings of Don Giovanni.

MICAELA BARANELLO is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Arkansas. Her work on opera staging and Regietheater has appeared in the Opera Quarterly, the Cambridge Opera Journal, the New York Times, and VAN Magazine. She is currently working on a book on Silver Age Viennese operetta.

BONNIE GORDON is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Monteverdi's Unruly Women (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and coeditor of The Courtesan's Arts (Oxford University Press, 2006). She has received fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute and the National Endowment for the Humanities and was a Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Harvard University's Villa I Tatti. She also writes for a number of news outlets, including the Washington Post and Slate.

ELLIE M. HISAMA is Professor of Music at Columbia University. She is Primary Investigator for Working in Sound: For the Daughters of Harlem, a project funded by Columbia's Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research, and is on the faculty committee of Project Spectrum, a student-led initiative to increase diversity in music studies. Her essay “Considering Race and Ethnicity in the Music Theory Classroom” will appear in the Norton Guide to Teaching Music Theory (forthcoming).