Katie Baillargeon

Katie is currently a third year graduate student and is very excited to finish her classes this June. She is also completing her third year as a Teaching Assistant for Music Appreciation.

Katie graduated cum laude from Santa Clara University in 1999 with a B.A. in Music and an emphasis in Trumpet Performance. In an effort to pursue a career in Arts Administration, she moved to Washington D.C. where she worked as a Music Librarian for the National Symphony Orchestra and later worked for the Washington Bach Consort as a Box Office Manager and Marketing/Development Assistant. While Katie enjoyed her work, she knew it was time to pursue an advanced degree and return to California. She chose to pursue a Ph.D. in musicology as being a history professor was a dream of hers since she was in junior high school.

Dissertation topic of the week: The role of women in French Baroque Opera. Katie would like to examine the role of absolutism and music in France (as opposed to the Venetian republic) and the implications of these politics for representations of women in opera.

Further interests: an interdisciplinary approach to women and the pastoral in opera. Katie would eventually like to write a book on the many operatic incarnations (from the late 17th c. to the early 20th c.) of the tale of Armida from Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.


Contact Information:

kathryn_baillargeon@umail.ucsb.edu

805.698.6074