Education
- PhD, Cornell University
- MPhil, Cambridge University
- BMus, University of Calgary
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 2011-14. Her articles have appeared in Representations, Eighteenth-Century Music, and the Cambridge Opera Journal. Her book Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 (2017) was published by the University of California Press, with an AMS75 Book Subvention Prize. With James Davies (UCBerkeley) she co-edited a volume entitled Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851, published by the University of Chicago Press. She co-edited (with Michael Burden, Wendy Heller, and Jonathan Hicks) a volume on Staging History, 1780-1840 (Oxford, 2016), to accompany an exhibition on London theatre history at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Her critical edition of Puccini’s “Wild West opera” La fanciulla del West had its premiere at La Scala in 2016 under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. With Sarah Hibberd, she is General Editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.