Arman Schwartz is the co-editor of Giacomo Puccini and His World (Princeton University Press) and editor of Opera and the Avant-Garde, a special issue of Opera Quarterly, on whose editorial board he serves. He is currently a Birmingham Fellow in Music at the University of Birmingham (UK) and previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. Major awards and fellowships include a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and the Royal Musical Association’s Jerome Roche Prize.