Sarah Day-O'Connell is Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Skidmore College, New York. A recipient of the Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women and Music, she has held research fellowships at Yale University, Connecticut, the British Library, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She has published on Haydn, the social contexts of singing, music and gender, theories of performance, and music studies within the liberal arts.