Colleen Renihan

Dr. Colleen Renihan is an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Music Theatre and Opera at the Dan School of Drama and Music, Queen's University. Her research focuses on contemporary opera and operatic culture in Canada and the U.S., exploring intersections with cultural politics, performance studies, temporality, memory theory, and historiography. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Toronto and an Artist Diploma in Opera Performance from the Vancouver Academy of Music.

Current roles include co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) on SSHRC-funded projects studying music graduates in cultural industries and accessible music theatre models for seniors and children with exceptionalities. She is also Co-Chair of the International Musicological Society Temporalities in Music Theatre Study Group.

Her monograph The Operatic Archive: American Opera as History (2020) and co-edited collection on pedagogies of care in music are key contributions. Teaching includes courses like 'Performance in Times of Crisis' and 'Theatre History & Literature II'.