Scholarship and Biography
Originally from rural New Jersey (which does, in fact, exist), Emily received her B.A. in Russian literature and music from Amherst College. She completed her M.Phil. in musicology at Cambridge University and her Ph.D. in music history and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where her dissertation on opera and psychological prose in 1870s Russia was supported by an Alvin H. Johnson/AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship. Emily's publications include articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th-Century Music, Rimsky-Korsakov and His World, and The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. She is currently finishing her first book, The Realist Empire: Music and Drama in Imperial Russia.
A keen advocate of interdisciplinary teaching and research, Emily has held faculty positions in three different departments (music, Russian, and comparative literature) and taught courses on Russian culture, literature and music, European Romanticism, and all eras of music history. While a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) at Berkeley, her teaching was honored with the music department's Outstanding GSI Award. In 2011, she was one of 10 graduate students at UCB to win the university-wide Teaching Effectiveness Award, which honors creative solutions to pedagogical problems.
In October/November 2018, Emily was a three-day champion on the television game show Jeopardy!