Blake Stevens is a musicologist and tenured Associate Professor in the School of Arts at Peking University. He is editor of Teaching Electronic Music: Cultural, Analytical, and Creative Perspectives (2022) and has published research on topics ranging from French Baroque opera and eighteenth-century criticism and aesthetics to the historiography of electroacoustic music. He received a PhD in Music History from Stanford University with a dissertation on the tradition of the monologue in French opera and tragedy in the ancien régime (“Solitary Persuasions: The Concept of the Monologue in French Opera from Lully to Rameau”). His doctoral research was recognized with a grant from the Georges Lurcy Trust for archival work in Paris and a year-long residency at the Stanford Humanities Center.