Ellen Lockhart has been a member of the musicology faculty at the University of Toronto since 2014. Her articles have appeared in Representations, Eighteenth-Century Music, and the Cambridge Opera Journal. Her book Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770–1830 (2017) was published by the University of California Press. With James Davies (UC Berkeley) she coedited Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789–1851, published by the University of Chicago Press. She coedited (with Michael Burden, Wendy Heller, and Jonathan Hicks) a volume on Staging History, 1780–1840 (Oxford University Press, 2016), to accompany an exhibition on London theater history at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Her critical edition of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West had its premiere at La Scala in 2016 under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. With Sarah Hibberd, she is general editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.