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Kristin M. Franseen

Kristin M. Franseen is a postdoctoral associate at Western University, where she is currently at work on a new book project tentatively entitled The Intriguing Afterlives of Antonio Salieri: Gossip, Fiction, and the Post-Truth in Musical Biography. Her first book, Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson, was published by Clemson University Press in 2023.

Field Trip

“HAVE QUOTES ABOUT SALIERI”

By Kristin M. Franseen | January 10, 2025

How someone already convinced of a conspiracy theory reads non-conspiratorial sources.

History & Mystery

The Song of the Dying Composer

By Kristin M. Franseen | December 29, 2022

Attaching a mystery to a famous musician or work gives us something to hold onto.

Features

The Salieri Rumor and Why Gossip Matters

By Kristin M. Franseen | January 16, 2022

It didn’t take long for Salieri’s story to become almost completely removed from his music.

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