PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Kavanagh, Emma. “Composing Autobiography: Gustave Charpentier, Musical Life Narratives, and the Bohemian Self”. Forthcoming in Journal of Musicological Research, 2026.

Kavanagh, Emma. ‘“Du Paradis Rêvé”: Parodies of Japonisme in Saint-Saëns’s La princesse jaune’. Cambridge Opera Journal 36, vol. 3 (2024): 295-313. Available Open Access.

Kavanagh, Emma. ‘“Qu’il est loin mon pays”: Staging (Be)longing in Massenet’s Sapho’. Dix-Neuf 27, vol. 4 (2023): 247-267. Available Open Access.

Edited Volumes

Kavanagh, Emma and Sarah Kirby, eds. Music, Autobiography, and Constructing the Self. Guest-edited double special issue for the Journal of Musicological Research, forthcoming early 2026.

Reviews

Kavanagh, Emma. ‘Boulevard des Italiens, Benjamin Bernheim (tenor), Frédéric Chaslin (conductor), Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Deutsche Grammaphon, 2022’. Nineteenth-Century Music Review (2025): 1-6.

Price, Dylan and Emma Kavanagh. ‘Review: Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee (dir.), Rusalka (Royal Opera House), 21 February – 7 March 2023’. Romance, Revolution and Reform, Issue 6 (2024): 161-165. Available Open Access.

Conference Proceedings

Kavanagh, Emma. ‘“Du paradis rêvé”: The Orient in the Male Imagination in Saint-Saëns’s La Princesse jaune’. In The East, The West, The In-Between in Music, ed. David Vondráček, 59-69. Munich: Allitera, 2021.

Online Resources

Kavanagh, Emma, ed. ‘Dossier de Presse: Louise Bertin’s La Esmeralda (1836)’. Open Access press collection (containing 91 articles), published on the online repository of the France: Musiques, Cultures research network, 2025.