Emily I. Dolan joined the faculty at Brown University in 2019. Previously, she held positions at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. Dolan works on the music of the late 18th and 19th centuries. She focuses on issues of orchestration, timbre, aesthetics, and instrumentality, exploring in the intersections between music, science, and technology. She has published articles in Current Musicology, Cambridge Opera Journal, Eighteenth-Century Music, Studia Musicologica, Keyboard Perspectives, and 19th-Century Music. Her first book, The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. In 2018, she guest edited a double issue of Opera Quarterly, "Vocal Organologies and Philologies." Outside of the 18th century, she is also interested in Sound Art and has published in Popular Music on indie pop and ideas of kitsch. Dolan was a faculty fellow in the Penn Humanities Forum 2008-09 and in 2009-2010, Dolan was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2022, The Oxford Handbook of Timbre (2021), which Dolan co-edited with Alexander Rehding received the Ruth A. Solie Prize from the American Musicological Society. With Emily McGregor and Arman Schwartz, Dolan co-edited Sonic Circulations, Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge, 1900-1960 which is forthcoming with the University of Pennsylvania Press. Currenlty, Dolan is finishing her second book, Instruments and Order, which explores ideas of instrumentality and is working on a new project on timbre and "timbrelessness."
