Kelsy Morrison (she/her) is a first-year Ph.D. student in Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. She recently graduated with an M.A. in German Translation from Kent State University, where she also taught undergraduate German courses, and holds B.A. degrees in Music and German (with minors in Classics and Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies), also from Kent State. Her research interests center broadly around women in German-speaking lands: the representation of women in medieval German Minnesang and the music of nineteenth-century German composer Emilie Mayer. Kelsy’s translation case study for her M.A. was entitled The Symphonic Works of Emilie Mayer (1812-1883). Her undergraduate paper How a Serpent Slithered its Way into the 1995 BBC Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was selected to win the 2020 Kent State Performing Arts Library’s Excellence in Performing Arts Research Award. Kelsy fervently hopes to be able to play a serpent herself one day.

kmorri19@u.rochester.edu