Martha Feldman has written on Renaissance Venetian cultures of music, the entwinements of opera and sovereignty, the enduring paradox of castrati, the arts of courtesans, voice in the Black radical tradition, and Maria Callas. In 2013-15, she was co-PI on The Voice Project, which produced The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality, co-edited with Judith T. Zeitlin with afterword by Mladen Dolar (University of Chicago Press, 2019). She is co-editor, with Nicholas Mathew, of “Music and Sound at the Edges of History” (Representations, 2021); winner of the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association and the Directorium of the International Musicological Society; a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and recipient of the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, the Laing Award of the University of Chicago Press, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among others. Her work has been featured in the London Review of Books, Harper’s, the Daily Telegraph, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. She is associate producer on several albums by jazz artist Patricia Barber. Recently she co-edited the Portable Gray issue “Sounding the Spectral” with Seth Brodsky (2025) and published "Vocal Deliriums (Five Proposals)" in Critical Inquiry (Fall 2025). Her newest monograph is Castrato Phantoms: Moreschi, Fellini, and the Sacred Vernacular in Rome (Zone Books, 2026).
