Education
- PhD, McGill University
- MA, McGill University
- PGDip, Royal Northern College of Music
- BMus, University of Western Ontario
Biography
Sarah Gutsche-Miller is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century dance and dance music, nationalism, and women in music. She completed her PhD at McGill University in 2010 with a Canadian Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and pursued postdoctoral research with Lynn Garafola at Columbia University/Barnard College supported by a SSHRC fellowship. She has published essays about ballet and has presented papers on dance, nationalism, Nielsen, and Ravel at conferences in North America and Europe. Her first book, Parisian Music-Hall Ballet, 1871-1913, was published by the University of Rochester Press, Eastman Studies in Music, in 2015. This book brings to light a forgotten ballet culture and repertoire and challenges the myth that Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes were responsible for a ballet revival in early twentieth-century Paris. Gutsche-Miller is currently working on two projects: the first about Madame Mariquita’s modernist ballets created for the Paris Opéra-Comique between 1898-1918, and the second about ballets integrated into Parisian boulevard-theatre spectacles in the second half of the nineteenth century.