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Martha Feldman is the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor of Music and the College at the University of Chicago. A cultural historian specializing in European vernacular musics (1500-1950) with a focus on Italy, her work interrogates intersections of social, political, and artistic phenomena through opera, cinema, media, and voice studies.
Education:
- PhD in Musicology, University of Pennsylvania (1987)
Feldman's research spans Renaissance Venice, 18th-century opera seria, and 20th-century castrato legacies. Current projects include The Castrato Phantom and the co-edited volume A Voice as Something More, both exploring voice studies through interdisciplinary lenses.
Her publications analyze:
- Madrigals in Venetian civic culture
- Opera as political metaphor
- Voice ontology across media
- Fellini's operatic influences
- Courtesan artistic practices
- Psychoanalysis of vocal identity
Scientific Awards:
- Dent Medal (2001)
- Graduate Teaching Award (2009)
- Gordon J. Laing Award (2010)
- Otto Kinkeldey Award (2015)
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
Feldman has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim Foundation, and Getty Research Institute. She mentors graduate students through collaborative research initiatives and co-edited works.
Labs/Teams:
- Principal Investigator, The Voice Project (2013-2016)
- Member, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
- Board Leadership, American Musicological Society
