Jesse Rosenberg is an Associate Professor in Musicology at Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, Center for the Musical Arts of Northwestern University, Illinois. He is a specialist in 19th- and 20th-century Italian opera, with numerous publications on Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, and Verdi and others, as well as papers read at national and international conferences. Other fields in which he has published are instrumental music in 19th-century Italy and the Florentine music critic and theorist Abramo Basevi (1818-1885). His research interests include the convergence of music with areas such as literature, poetry, theology, fascism, and the Holocaust. More recently his focus has been on the representation of Jewish identity in Italian musical culture. Rosenberg is a contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and Pipers Enzyclopädie des Musiktheaters. He received the Outstanding Dissertation Award and Excellence in Teaching Award from New York University and is on the Faculty Honor Roll at Northwestern University.