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Molly C. Doran is an Assistant Professor of Music at Wartburg College, where she teaches musicology courses and private piano lessons. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University (2021), an M.M. in Music History from Bowling Green State University (2012), and a B.A. in Music with a piano focus from Hillsdale College (2010).
- Ph.D., Indiana University, 2021
- M.A., Bowling Green University, 2012
- B.A., Hillsdale College, 2010
Her research explores representations of women’s suffering in opera, combining musicology, performance studies, and trauma theory to analyze operatic performance as a form of witness-bearing. She has presented at major conferences such as the American Musicological Society, Transnational Opera Studies Conference, and Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association.
Dr. Doran’s scholarly work has been supported by prestigious awards including the Chateaubriand Fellowship for research in Paris and the David Henry Jacobs International Overseas Musicology Fellowship. Her publications are in progress or forthcoming in journals like the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, and Oxford Bibliographies.
- Chateaubriand Fellowship
- David Henry Jacobs International Overseas Musicology Fellowship
As an educator, she emphasizes critical engagement with music history through topics like canon formation, protest, and representations of race, gender, and disability. She founded an opera club for students to extend classroom discussions into informal settings.
