Speakers
- Emily Wilbourne
- Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Associate Professor
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 first book, Seventeenth-Century Opera and the Sound of the Commedia dell’Arte (2016), was published by Chicago University Press, and an edited collection in honor of Suzanne G. Cusick appeared as a special issue of Women & Music in 2015. Wilbourne’s articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Women & Music, Recercare, Teatro e storia, Italian Studies, Echo, and Workplace. In 2011, Dr. Wilbourne was awarded the Philip Brett Award for excellence in queer music scholarship for “Amor nello specchio (1622): Mirroring, Masturbation, and Same-Sex Love”; in 2017-18, she was the Francesco De Dombrowski Fellow at Villa I Tatti in Florence.