Rebecca Harris-Warrick is Professor of Music at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She has published widely on French baroque music and dance, with research excursions into 19th-century Italian opera in France, and has prepared critical editions of ballets by Jean-Baptiste Lully and of Gaetano Donizetti's French opera, La Favorite. Her most recent book, edited with Bruce Alan Brown, is The Grotesque Dancer on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Gennaro Magri and his World (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). She is currently studying the dramaturgy of dance in French opera from Lully to Rameau.