Jelena Novak
Jelena Novak (CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) works as researcher, lecturer, dramaturge, music critic and curator focused on bringing together critical theory and contemporary art. Her fields of interests are: contemporary music and opera, musical theatre, singing and new media, capitalist realism, voice studies and feminine identities in music. Novak has been a founding committee member of the Society for Minimalist Music and a founding member of the editorial collective TkH [Walking Theory]. Her most recent books are Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body (2015), Operofilia (2018) and Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama (co-edited with John Richardson, 2019).