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Rena Roussin

Musicology

Biography

Rena Roussin is a doctoral candidate in musicology in the Faculty of Music. She studies classical music’s historic and current relationships to issues of equity and social justice, with a particular emphasis on opera. Her dissertation, “Positioning Classical Music(ology): Histories, Institutions, Narratives,” utilizes numerous case studies (including disability historiography in music biography, the rise of EDI initiatives in post-secondary music education, and Indigenous-led work in opera in Canada) to analyze how classical music and musicology are responding to changing and increasingly intersectional social climates. Rena serves as musicologist-in-residence for the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, on the Canadian Opera Company’s Circle of Artists, and as Secretary of the AMS Music and Disability Studies Study Group. Her current and forthcoming publications appear with Bloomsbury, Cambridge, Oxford, and Wilfrid Laurier Presses.