USA. Doctor of Musicology from Harvard University and Full Professor of Musicology in the Fynette H. Kulas Chair at Case Western Reserve University. As a researcher, she has focused on the cultural analysis of music, addressing both European classical music and contemporary popular music. She is co-author of several books and also author of Georges Bizet: Carmen (1992), Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (Bloch Lectures, 2000); Modal Subjectivities: Renaissance Self-Fashioning in the Italian Madrigal (2004); Reading Music: Selected Essays (2007), Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music (2012), and The Passions of Peter Sellars: Staging the Music (2019). Her diverse writings have been translated into over twenty languages, and throughout her career, she has supervised more than fifty doctoral theses. In 1995, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant.