Jamuna Samuel is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Music Department. She completed her Ph.D. in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center, specializing in Italian art music of the twentieth century. She has held positions as visiting assistant professor at Wellesley College and Stony Brook University, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on tonal and post-tonal theory and analysis, the history of twentieth-century music, opera, Italian popular and folk traditions, and on performance-analysis issues. Her publications have appeared in Rivista di analisi e teoria musicale and Indiana Theory Review, and are forthcoming in Forum Italicum and in the volume Singing Signs: New Semiotic Explorations of Opera (eds. Shaftel and Decker). Paper presentations include those given at the national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory. Her research has been funded by grants from Stony Brook and by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for research in Venice. She previously studied piano with Walter Ponce (SUNY-Binghamton) and Sara Laimon (Yale).