Gundula Kreuzer

Gundula Kreuzer is a Full Professor at Yale University's Department of Music and has served as Chair since 2023. Her academic career at Yale began in 2005 as Assistant Professor, progressing to Associate Professor in 2010 and Full Professor in 2019. She was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (2002), and has held editorial roles for

• The Opera Quarterly (Reviews Editor)
• Cambridge Opera Journal
• Musiktheorie
• VerdiPerspektiven
• MGG Online
• "Opera Lab" series, University of Chicago Press

Her academic work focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to opera, combining cultural history, technology, media theory, and political context. Notably, her books Verdi and the Germans (2010) and Curtain, Gong, Steam (2018) have received multiple awards, including the Lewis Lockwood Award, Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, and the Dent Medal. Her recent research explores contemporary experimental opera and postwar memory cultures.

The trends in her research and publications span from Wagnerian technologies in 19th-century opera to modern "indie" opera, screen media, and media archaeology. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary reinterpretation, emphasizing the ephemerality and legacy of operatic productions.

Scientific awards and honors she has received include

• Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes grant (1994)
• DAAD scholarship (1997)
• British Academy grant (1999)
• Paul A. Pisk Award (2000)
• Jerome Roche Prize (2005)
• Alfred Einstein Award (2006)
• Hilles Publication Awards (2008, 2015)
• Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize (2010)
• Martin Chusid Award (2013)
• Dent Medal (2019)
• Elected member, Academia Europaea (2022)

Kreuzer also contributes to public engagement through radio presentations (SWR, WNYC, BBC Radio3), program notes, lectures, and the Metropolitan Opera Quiz. She founded the YOST: Yale Opera Studies Today conference series (2019) and leads the Opera Studies Today Working Group at Yale, fostering dialogue between artists and scholars.