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Elissa Harbert is an Associate Professor of Music at DePauw University, specializing in musicology with expertise in American and European musical traditions. An award-winning scholar, her research examines Broadway musicals through lenses of gender, race, historiography, and cultural memory. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of Studies in Musical Theatre and previously edited book reviews for American Music (2016-2019).
Research Focus: Her primary investigations center on historical representation in musical theater, notably in her book project Unlikely Subjects: History Musicals and the Challenges of Presenting the Past on Broadway. Additional publications analyze productions like Hamilton and 1776, with contributions to scholarly volumes including The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical.
Teaching: Harbert emphasizes critical analysis and cultural context in courses spanning:
- History of Broadway Musicals
- Music and the Vietnam War
- Women in Western Music
- Exoticism in Music
- Western Music History Surveys
Awards:
- Virgil Thomson Fellowship for book research (Society for American Music)
- Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship (American Musicological Society)
Education:
- PhD in Musicology (Northwestern University)
- MM in Oboe Performance (Wichita State University)
- BM magna cum laude in Oboe Performance (Lawrence University)
