Emmanuela Wroth
پژوهشگر ارشد · Nineteenth-Century French Music Theatre
University of Cambridgeمعرفی
Dr Emmanuela Wroth is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on 19th-century French music theatre history, celebrity studies, and the intersections of race, gender, and class. She holds a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages (French/Spanish) and an MPhil in European and Comparative Literatures from Cambridge, followed by a PhD in Collaborative Doctoral Project at Durham University and the Bowes Museum.
- Current Project: 'Diasporic Divas: Racialized and Gendered Celebrity in Western Europe, 1715–1925' (Leverhulme Fellowship)
- Prior Fellowship: Postdoctoral Fellowship in French Music at University of Toronto (2022–24)
Her research highlights Afrodiasporic women performers in Europe and challenges Eurocentric narratives in celebrity studies. She has collaborated with institutions like the National Gallery, Tate, and Bowes Museum, and has disseminated work via podcasts and public lectures. She is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches courses on music history, Francophone culture, and theatre.
Awards include being a 2021 finalist in the AHRC TV PhD scheme at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her forthcoming monograph, Courting Celebrity: Creating the Courtesan on the Popular Parisian Stage and Beyond, 1831–1859, examines gender and class politics in mid-19th century Parisian theatre.
