Dr. Elizabeth Rouget

Education:
- BA (University of King’s College)
- MA (University of Toronto)
- MA (Princeton University)
- PhD (Princeton University)

Research Topics :
- 17^th and 18^th century opera and dance
- Music in the global early modern period
- The history of performing arts books and material objects

Elizabeth Rouget, received her PhD from Princeton University in 2025, which was supported by a Bombardier Graduate Fellowship from SSHRCC, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton until her appointment as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University in 2026.  Her research interests include French opéra-comique in North America and the Caribbean in the long 18th century, the circulation and migration of performing arts practitioners and their musical objects, baroque dance and gesture, and early modern book and material history.  Her recent article titled “Paris of the American South: 18^th Century French Opéra-Comique in New Orleans, the case of Azémia, ou les sauvages” was published by American Music in 2024.  As an interdisciplinary scholar, Rouget is passionate about bringing together various performance fields into the classroom to highlight new insights and avenues of inquiry.