Naomi André

Associate Professor of Women's Studies and the Residential College PhD and MA in Music, Harvard University BA in Music, Barnard College, Columbia University Photo:  Elizabeth Cole

Contact Information:
2128 Lane Hall
204 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
734.647.0773
Email: nandre@umich.edu

Scholarly Interests: Music, especially 19th century Italian opera. Gender and cultural studies, particularly surrounding the areas of voice, race/ethnicity, representation and identity

Biography:

Naomi André is Associate Professor in Women’s Studies and the Residential College at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race. Her publications include topics on Italian opera, Schoenberg, and women composers. Her book Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera was published by Indiana University Press (2006). Her current research interests extend to constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity in opera. She is co-editing an essay collection on how blackness is represented in opera; this book is under contract with the University of Illinois Press.

Publications:

“Women’s Roles in Meyerbeer’s Operas: How Italian Heroines are Reflected in French Grand Opera” in Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu. Edited by Victoria Johnson, Jane Fulcher and Thomas Ertman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007, 87-114.

Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2006.

“Entering the Present: Music Meets Race.” Action, Criticism, Theory for Music Education. (volume 4, no. 3, 2005: 1-12).

“Dreimal tausend Jahre: Music, Text and Context” in Religious and Political Ideas in Schoenberg’s Works. Edited by Charlotte Cross and Russell Berman. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. 2000, 259-288.

“Teaching Opera in Prison,” in The Intersectional Approach: Transforming Women’s and Gender Studies through Race, Class, and Gender, eds. Michele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.