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About Ellen Rosand
- Ellen Rosand is an American musicologist, historian, and opera critic who specializes in Italian music and poetry of the 16th through 18th centuries.
- Her work has been particularly focused on the music and culture of Venice and Italian opera of the baroque era.
- She is an acknowledged expert on the operas of Handel and Vivaldi, and on Venetian opera.
- Her books include Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre (1991, University of California Press) and Monteverdi's last operas: a Venetian trilogy (2007, University of California Press).
- She has also contributed articles to numerous publications, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Rosand is a graduate of Vassar College (B.A.), Harvard University (M.A.), and New York University (Ph.D.).
- From 1981–1983 she was editor of the Journal of the American Musicological Society.
- From 1992–1994 she was President of the American Musicological Society, and from 1997–2002 she was Vice-president of the International Musicological Society.
- In 1990 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2007 she was the recipient of the Andrew W.
- Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award.
- She currently serves on the editorial boards of several publications, including The Journal of Musicology, The Cambridge Opera Journal, Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Cambridge Studies in Opera.
- She has taught on the music faculty at Yale University since 1992, including serving as department chair of the music department from 1993–1998.
- She had previously taught on the faculty at Rutgers University.
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