CONTRIBUTOR:
Emily Wilbourne
AFFILIATION:
TITLE:
Assistant Professor
DEPARTMENT:
Queens College and Graduate Center
INSTITUTION:
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
BIOGRAPHY:
Emily Wilbourne is Associate Professor of Musicology at Queens College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York and Editor-in-Chief of Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. Her book, Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte, was published in 2016 by the University of Chicago Press, and an edited collection in honour of Suzanne G. Cusick appeared as a special issue of Women & Music in 2015. Dr. Wilbourne has published widely on the commedia dell’arte and seventeenth-century music. In 2011, Dr. Wilbourne was awarded the Philip Brett Award for excellence in queer music scholarship for her article, “Amor nello specchio (1622): Mirroring, Masturbation, and Same-Sex Love”; she is currently at work on a new monograph, tentatively titled, “Opera’s Others: Musical Representations of Racialized Difference at the Beginning of the Anthropocene.”