Thesis: The Hypermobility Turn: Opera of the Future, The Future of Opera
Musicology
jingyizhang@g.harvard.edu
Jingyi Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Harvard University. Previously, she holds a BM and MM in musicology and piano performance at Oberlin Conservatory and Indiana University. Her dissertation project “The Hypermobility Turn: Opera of The Future, The Future of Opera” presents hypermobility as a critical framework in examining decolonizing practices in contemporary operas.
Jingyi’s current book project entitled New Dramaturgies of Contemporary Opera: The Practitioners’ Perspectives is under contract with Routledge, and reflects her ongoing interest in crossing boundary lines between the artistic and the scholarly in contemporary opera studies. Her article “Creating a Honglou meng for 21st-Century San Francisco: Musical Confluence in Bright Sheng’s Opera, Dream of the Red Chamber (2016-2022)” is forthcoming in the December 2023 issue of CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature. Her book chapter “On and Beyond Mickey-Mousing: Revisiting Yuan Muzhi’s Scenes of City Life (1935)” is also forthcoming in The Palgrave Handbook of Music in Comedy Cinema in August 2023.
Jingyi has won the Deane Root Award and Virginia University Press Award for delivering the best scholarly papers at AMS chapter conferences. Jingyi’s dissertation work is supported by the Holmes/D’Accone fellowship in opera studies from the American Musicological Society (AMS), the Virgil Thomson Fellowship from the Society for American Music (SAM), and various Harvard fellowships.