Anne Levitsky, Ph.D. student in Historical Musicology, successfully defended her dissertation, "The Song from the Singer: Personification, Embodiment, and Anthropomorphization in Troubadour Lyric," on April 12. The committee, pictured here with Anne, consisted of (from left to right) Prof. Ana María Ochoa, Susan Boynton, Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale), Eliza Zingesser (Columbia, Department of French and Romance Philology), and Giuseppe Gerbino. Congratulations, Anne!