Daniela Graca

Daniela Graca is a historian of gender and music. Their doctoral thesis, supervised by Bettina Varwig, explores constructions of gender and the body in early sixteenth-century Florence, focused on mystical theology and laude (vernacular Catholic songs) produced within a network of Dominican women’s institutions. Daniela's work is based in archival research and is especially focused on the gendering of vocal production, including descriptions of the voice as a bodily fluid.

Daniela’s Doctoral work is supported by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership joint studentship with Girton College, and by a Doctoral Fellowship with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. They hold a Master of Arts in Musicology from McGill University and a Bachelor of Music in Musicology from the University of Ottawa.