Elizabeth Hudson is an American musicologist, and is a Professor of Music and Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, specialising in opera studies.
She completed a Master of Arts and a PhD titled Narrative in Verdi: perspectives on his musical dramaturgy at Cornell University.
[1][2] Hudson was then director of undergraduate programmes in the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Music.
[5] Hudson stepped down from the directorship of NZSM in 2013, and took up a position as Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University.
[3][6] Hudson specialises in opera studies, and has published on Donizetti, Puccini, as well as a critical edition of Verdi's Il Corsaro.