Professor Elizabeth Hudson

Director

MA, Cornell University; PhD, Cornell University

After studying piano at the Manhattan School of Music and in Vienna, Elizabeth Hudson completed her undergraduate music degree at Smith College.  She pursued graduate studies in musicology at Cornell University, and was awarded an AMS 50 Fellowship for her dissertation on Verdi.

From 1991 to 2006 she taught at the University of Virginia, first as Assistant and then as Associate Professor, where she also served as Director of Undergraduate Programs, Director of Graduate Programs, and from 2002-2005 as Department Chair.

She has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including from the NEH, a Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Virginia Sesquicentennial Associate for the Centre for Advanced Studies, and the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellowship at Downing College, Cambridge University.  With Mary Ann Smart, she organised the NEH sponsored conference on Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Opera at SUNY Stony Brook, 1995.

Her critical edition of Verdi’s Il corsaro (published by The University of Chicago Press) has received performances around the world, including at Covent Garden, Trieste, Parma and Barcelona.  She is currently working on a book on Verdi opera.

Contact details

Email elizabeth.hudson@nzsm.ac.nz

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