Emily Frey

Assistant Professor of Music

Departments/Programs

Music

Degrees

University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.
University of Cambridge, M.Phil.
Amherst College, B.A.

Expertise

Music of the "long" nineteenth century; Russian music, literature, and cultural history; history of opera; music and literature; music, politics, and law; Romanticism and realism; voice studies; music criticism; operatic acting.

Profile

Originally from rural New Jersey (which does, in fact, exist), Emily received her B.A. in Russian literature and music from Amherst College. She completed her M.Phil. in musicology at Cambridge University and her Ph.D. in music history and literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where her dissertation on opera and psychological prose in 1870s Russia was supported by an Alvin H. Johnson/AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship. Emily's publications include articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, 19th-Century Music, Rimsky-Korsakov and His World, and The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. She is currently finishing her first book, Russian Opera in the Age of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

A keen advocate of interdisciplinary teaching and research, Emily has held faculty positions in three different departments (music, Russian, and comparative literature) and taught courses on Russian culture, literature and music, European Romanticism, and all eras of music history. While a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) at Berkeley, her teaching was honored with the music department's Outstanding GSI Award. In 2011, she was one of 10 graduate students at UCB to win the university-wide Teaching Effectiveness Award, which honors creative solutions to pedagogical problems.

In October/November 2018, Emily was a three-day champion on the television game show Jeopardy!

Courses Taught

MUS	52b	Russian Music and Russian Power from Glinka to Putin
MUS	56b	Romanticism in European Music and Literature: Breakups, Breakdowns, and Beauty
MUS	133b	History of Music II: Late Baroque and Classical
MUS	136b	Divas
MUS	182a	Introduction to Musicology
MUS	189a	Proseminar in Music of the Nineteenth Century
MUS	190a	Proseminar in Music since 1900
MUS	205a	Musicology Lab
MUS	218b	Seminar in the Music of the Nineteenth Century

Scholarship

Frey, Emily. "Stravinsky versus Literature." Stravinsky in Context. Ed. Graham Griffiths. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 205-212.

Frey, Emily. "Music Criticism in Imperial Russia." The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. Ed. Christopher Dingle. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 208-228.

Frey, Emily. "Rimsky-Korsakov, Snegurochka, and Populism." Rimsky-Korsakov and His World. Ed. Marina Frolova-Walker. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 63-88.

Frey, Emily. "Boris Godunov and the Terrorist." Journal of the American Musicological Society 70. 1 (2017): 129-69.

Frey, Emily. "Nowhere Man: Evgeny Onegin and the Politics of Reflection in Nineteenth-Century Russia." 19th-Century Music 36. 3 (2013): 209-30.