Martha Feldman's research ranges from the early modern to present-day Italian music and other parts of Europe. She is the author of City Culture and the Madrigal at Venice (1995), Opera and Sovereignty: Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy (2007), The Castrato: Reflections on Natures and Kinds (2015), and her forthcoming book “Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome” (2025), as well as edited collections on voice, courtesans’ arts, spectrality, performance, and music historiography. She is the winner of many prizes, including the Laing Award, the Graduate Teaching and Mentoring Award, and the Sze Award. Feldman is the Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Music and the College at the University of Chicago.