Nancy Rachel November
The University of Auckland
New Zealand

Nancy November is a senior lecturer in musicology at the University of Auckland. Her research and teaching interests centre on the music of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries:  aesthetics, analysis, and performance history and practices.  She has edited and published several volumes of chamber music by Beethoven’s contemporaries, for example Wranitzky, Six Sextets (A-R Editions, Recent Researches in Music of the Classical Era, 2012). She recently completed a monograph entitled Beethoven’s Theatrical Quartets:  Opp. 59, 74, and 95 (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Brenda Allen
The University of Auckland
New Zealand

Brenda Allen taught and researched at the University of Auckland in the School of Social Sciences, and has recently retired. She previously taught music privately and in schools. Her current research area is the feature film, and her interests include print media and twentieth-century poetry. Recent articles include a discussion of fast food and American nourishment in the animation Ratatouille. She continues to research and write about Indigenous Australian feature film.