Heather Hadlock

Heather Hadlock serves as Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University, specializing in 18th- and 19th-century French and Italian opera, feminist criticism, gender studies, and French Romanticism. Her scholarly foundation includes a Ph.D. in Musicology from Princeton University (1996).

Dr. Hadlock's research critically examines historical and contemporary opera through feminist and gender lenses, with current projects investigating operatic masculinities, digital-era transformations of opera, and technological dimensions of diva culture. She explores intersections between music and literature within French Romantic contexts, contributing foundational perspectives to feminist musicology.

Her seminal monograph Mad Loves: Women and Music in Offenbach’s “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” (Princeton University Press, 2000) established her authority in the field, complemented by chapters in The Cambridge Companion to Rossini (2003), Women’s Voices Across Musical Worlds (2003), and the Oxford Bibliographies Online annotated entry on 'Women and Music' (2011). She regularly publishes in leading journals including the Cambridge Opera Journal and Journal of the American Musicological Society.