Edmund J. Goehring is Professor of Music History at Western University. He received his PhD from Columbia University, and his main interests are aesthetics, historiography, and criticism, especially as they bear on theatre and opera at the time of Mozart. His publications have appeared in the Cambridge Opera Journal, Eighteenth-Century Music, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Film International (on Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges), Publications of the Modern Language Association, and Studi Verdiani.

Awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and his book Coming to Terms with Our Musical Past (Boydell, 2018) was the winner of the 2019 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America.