Emily Wilbourne is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in music at Columbia University. Her work concerns the historiography of past performance, focusing on Italian theatre during the early decades of the seventeenth century. Her dissertation, “La Florinda: The Performance of Virginia Ramponi Andreini (1583-1630/1)”, explores the specific performances of gender, sexuality, class and race that were embodied by a particular commedia dell’arte actress and singer, and the impact of overlapping musical and theatrical genres on the emergence of early opera. Emily is currently the managing editor for Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture. She has published articles on Virginia Andreini in Recercare (2007) and Teatro e storia (2007), and has also published on the performance of academic labour in Workplace (2007). She compiled the updated bibliography of lesbian and gay music scholarship for the second edition of Queering the Pitch (2006) and has reviewed books for The Cambridge Opera Journal (2006).