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Emily I. Dolan is Professor of Music at Brown University, where she has taught since 2019; previously she held positions at UPenn and Harvard. Dolan works on the music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on issues of orchestration, timbre, aesthetics, and instrumentality. She is the author of The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and has published articles and essays in Current Musicology, Eighteenth-Century Music, Studia Musicologica, Keyboard Perspectives, Representations, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Osiris, and 19th-Century Music. In 2018, she guest edited a double issue of Opera Quarterly and with Alexander Rehding, Dolan co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Timbre (2021), which won the 2022 Ruth A. Solie Prize from the American Musicological Society. With Arman Schwartz and Emily MacGregor, she co-edited Sonic Circulations: Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge, which was recently published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Currently she is completing her second monograph, Instruments and Order.