Naomi André
Associate Professor
RC Department: Arts and Ideas
nandre@umich.edu
Office: 104 Tyler Office hours: By appointment
Naomi André is Associate Professor in Women’s Studies and the Residential College at the University of Michigan. She received her BA in music from Barnard College and MA and PhD in musicology from Harvard University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century opera and issues surrounding gender, voice, and race. Her publications include topics on Italian opera, Schoenberg, and women composers. Her book, Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera was published by Indiana University Press (2006). Her current research interests extend to constructions of race, ethnicity, and identity in opera. She is co-editing an essay collection on how blackness is represented in opera; this book is under contract with the University of Illinois Press.
Recent Courses
19th-century Italian Opera
Race and Identity in Music
History of the Symphony
Gender and Music
Selected Articles
“Women’s Roles in Meyerbeer’s Operas: How Italian Heroines are Reflected in French Grand Opera” in Opera and Society in Italy and France from Monteverdi to Bourdieu. Edited by Victoria Johnson, Jane Fulcher and Thomas Ertman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007, 87-114.
“Entering the Present: Music Meets Race.” Action, Criticism, Theory for Music Education. (volume 4, no. 3, 2005: 1-12). [http://mas.siue.edu/ACT/index.html].
“Teaching Opera in Prison,” in The Intersectional Approach: Transforming Women’s and Gender Studies through Race, Class, and Gender, eds. Michele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming.
Books Published
Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera, Indiana University Press, 2006.
Currently editing a book on blackness and opera. This book is under contract with the University of Illinois Press.