Dr. Ellen Lockhart

Biography

Ellen Lockhart has been a member of the musicology faculty at the University of Toronto since 2014. She received her PhD from Cornell University in 2011 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University from 2011 to 2014. Her articles have appeared in venues such as Representations, Eighteenth-Century Music, and Cambridge Opera Journal. She published a book titled 'Animation, Plasticity, Music Italy, 1770-1830' in 2017 through the University of California Press, which won the AMS75 Book Subvention Prize. Along with James Davies from the University of California, Berkeley, she co-edited the volume 'Sound Knowledge: Music Science London, 1789-1851', published by the University of Chicago Press. Additionally, she has co-edited 'Staging History, 1780-1840' with Michael Burden, Wendy Heller, and Jonathan Hicks, which accompanied an exhibition on London theatre history at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Lockhart was involved in the critical edition of Puccini’s 'Wild West opera' La fanciulla del West which premiered at La Scala in 2016 under the baton of Riccardo Chailly, and she serves as a General Editor for the Cambridge Opera Journal.

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