Taryn Dubois is a 6th year PhD student in the department of music. Her research on nineteenth-century Italian ballets sits at the intersection of musicology, dance history, and opera studies, uncovering unexpected connections between theatrical dance with industrialization, sport, and technology. She holds an MA from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music in trumpet performance from Brandon University. She looks forward to another semester of writerly and scholarly conversations with other graduate students through the GWL.