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Research Team
Principal Investigator
Dr Nicolò Palazzetti
nicolo.palazzetti [at] uniroma1.it
Nicolò Palazzetti is a musicologist, cultural historian and sociologist specialising in twentieth-century music, music and politics, and in opera, audience and digital cultures. His publications include eleven peer-reviewed articles, three special issues and a monograph: Béla Bartók in Italy: The Politics of Myth-Making (The Boydell Press, 2021). He obtained a PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 2017. Prior to join La Sapienza in 2021, he worked as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham (2017-18) and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Strasbourg (2019-21).
Supervisor
Prof. Emanuele Senici
emanuele.senici [at] uniroma.it
Emanuele Senici studied musicology at the University of Pavia (Laurea 1993), at King's College London, and at Cornell University, USA (MA 1996, PhD 1998). From 2000 to 2007 he was University Lecturer and then Reader in the Oxford Faculty of Music, as well as Fellow of St. Hugh's College. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Music History at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and since 2009 Visiting Professor in the Music Department of King's College London. His research centres on Italian opera of the long nineteenth century, on the theory and historiography of opera, especially issues of genre and gender, and on opera on video. Among his publications are The Cambridge Companion to Rossini (Cambridge University Press, 2004, as editor), Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Giacomo Puccini and His World (Princeton University Press, 2016, co-edited with Arman Schwartz) and Music in the Present Tense: Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Between 2003 and 2008 he was co-editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal (Cambridge University Press).
Co-Supervisor
Prof. Romana Andò
romana.ando [at] uniroma1.it
Romana Andò is Associate Professor of ‘Sociology of Communication and Fashion’ and ‘Audience Research’. As a media scholar, she specialises in audience studies, media consumption practices, fashion studies and gender studies. After her PhD (Sapienza 2002), she has coordinated several international research projects on audience engagement. She is the Co-Investigator of the project ‘A Girls' Eye-view: Girlhood on the Italian screen since the 1950s’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and hosted by the University of Exeter. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 10 volumes. Many of them are particularly relevant to OPANDA, such as an Audience Reader in 2008 (which contributed to the diffusion of audience studies in Italy) and an essay on Youtube Content Creators in 2016. She is the Deputy Director of the hosting Department SARAS at La Sapienza.
Mentor
Prof. Gundula Kreuzer
gundula.krezuer [at] yale.edu
Gundula Kreuzer, PhD (Oxford 2004), is Professor of Music at Yale University and supervises the secondment there. Kreuzer approaches opera from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives, such as social, cultural, and political history as well as theories of technology and multimedia. She has published two monographs and several articles on the relation between operas and screen media. These include [to complete]. She has a solid supervisory experience (she has supervised so far 10 PhD students as Main Supervisor) and has mentored postdoctoral fellows at an international level. She was awarded the prestigious Dent Medal from the Royal Musical Association in 2019.