About
I am a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. I specialize in European early music, Spanish musical theatre in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and gender performance and representation in early Spanish and Italian opera.
Education
Ph.D. in Musicology, University of Toronto (2016)
M.A. in Musicology, The University of British Columbia (2010)
B.A., Major: Music/minor: French, The University of British Columbia (2010) Publications
Book
2018 co-authored with Susan Lewis. Claudio Monteverdi: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. 242 pp.
Refereed Journal Articles
2018 “Love Conquers All: Cupid, Philip V, and the Allegorical Zarzuela during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–16),” Eighteenth-Century Music 15.1, 29–45.
2017 “Sobbing Cupids, Lamenting Lovers, and Weeping Nymphs in the Early Zarzuela: Calderón de la Barca’s El laurel de Apolo (1657) and Durón and Navas’s Apolo y Dafne (ca. 1700),” Bulletin of the Comediantes 69.2, 69–95.
Chapters in Conference Proceedings
2013 ““Muera Cupido!”: Una lectura sobre la filosofía del amor en Salir el amor del mundo (c. 1696),” in Musicología global, musicología local, edited by Pilar Ramos López, Javier Marín López, Germán Gan Quesada y Elena Torres Clemente. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Musicología, 2157–2169.
2013 “Violencia y desesperación: la utilización de los afectos en las obras de música teatral de Sebastián Durón,” in Sebasián Durón (1660–1716) y la música de su época, edited by Paulino Capdepón and Juan José Pastor Comín. Vigo, Galicia: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 137–50.
Book Review
2014 Andrea Bombi, Entre Tradición y Modernidad: El Italianismo Musical en Valencia (1685–1738) (Valencia: Institut Valencià de la música, 2011), Eighteenth-Century Music 11, no. 2: 291–94. Projects
My current SSHRC-funded research project explores the process of transfer and migration of the Italian castrato to the Spanish cultural context, examining the ways in which this figure was re-interpreted in the Spanish imagination and the ways in which it intersected with the development of local musical theatre.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“‘Crazy, Foolish, and Reckless’: The Image of the Sorceress in Early Spanish Opera” in Staging Witches: Gender, Power, and Alterity in Music AMS San Antonio Pre-Conference | October 31, 2018
