Elizabeth Hudson

Elizabeth Hudson is an American musicologist, and is a Professor of Music and Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, specialising in opera studies. She was previously director of the New Zealand School of Music.

Academic career

Hudson was educated at the Manhattan School of Music and Smith College. She completed a Master of Arts and a PhD titled Narrative in Verdi: perspectives on his musical dramaturgy at Cornell University. Hudson was then director of undergraduate programmes in the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Music.

Hudson was appointed to the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington in 2006, as professor of musicology. Hudson led the merger of the Massey University Conservatorium of Music and the Victoria University School of Music to create the New Zealand School of Music (NZSM), of which she was the inaugural director. One of Hudson's notable doctoral students is soprano Margaret Medlyn. Hudson stepped down from the directorship of NZSM in 2013, and took up a position as Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University.

Hudson specialises in opera studies, and has published on Donizetti, Puccini, as well as a critical edition of Verdi's Il Corsaro. Hudson has held a number of fellowships, including the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellowship at Downing College, Cambridge University, and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. She was a founding editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.

Selected works

Verdi, Giuseppe, Il corsaro: melodramma tragico in tre atti, ed. Hudson, Elizabeth (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) ISBN 9788875924911 OCLC 53320512