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Musicology

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messe@esm.rochester.edu
(585) 274-1096

Melina Esse received her Ph.D. in music history and literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was recognized for excellence in teaching. Her research interests include opera and melodrama, film sound, performance theory, and gender studies. At Eastman, Professor Esse has taught courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century music history, visual spectacle and the modern voice, and singers in nineteenth-century opera. She has published in the Cambridge Opera Journal (2002) and has presented papers to the American Musicological Society, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the American Society for Theater Research, the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, the Feminist Theory and Music conference, and the San Francisco and Minnesota Operas. A fellow at the Townsend Center for the Humanities in 2003-04, she was also the recipient of the Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 dissertation fellowship and the Mabelle McLeod- Lewis Memorial Fund fellowship.