Joy H. Calico is Professor and chair of Musicology at UCLA. She is completing a book on a theory of opera since Salome according to scene type that is built on Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin for California, and her co-edited volume entitled Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900 is forthcoming from OUP.

Her opera-centric scholarship includes the monograph Brecht at the Opera (California, 2008; paperback 2019) as well as publications on operas by Sivan Eldar, Chaya Czernowin, Olga Neuwirth, Kaija Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann, and Hanns Eisler, as well as East German opera directors and opera since 1945. She is a member of the working team of the international Black Opera Research Network (BORN) and serves on the editorial board of its journal, Journal of Black Opera and Music Theatre (JBOM). She was a member of the Nashville Opera board for nearly a decade.