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My primary research interests are in nineteenth-century opera (French, Italian), melodrama, ballet, and musical culture more generally in nineteenth-century Paris and London. I am also interested in the interface between music and other spheres (art, literature, politics).

I have worked on representations of madness in opera, and have more recently become interested in the perceived therapeutic powers of music, and its resonance with the nerves, in early nineteenth-century writing.