Kathryn Firth is a Ph.D. student in musicology at UC Davis. Originally from England, Kathryn earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Southampton in 2015. In May of 2017, she received a Master of Music History from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her Master’s thesis was entitled “Gender Ambivalence in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Career and Reception of Tarquinia Molza,” and in January 2017, Kathryn presented this research at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology/Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference in Canterbury (UK). Kathryn’s main research interests include the relationship between music and gender, the relationship between music and disability (with a focus on mental health), music pedagogy (both instrumental and classroom-based), and late-Renaissance Italy.