Estelle Joubert came to Toronto in 2007 from the University of Oxford where she recently completed her DPhil as a Clarendon scholar. Her research explores the intersections of musicology and political history, including representations of states and rulers in opera, issues of national identity in music, and musicological paradigms of the Habermasian public sphere. She has also conducted research on medieval chant transmission, medieval paleography, botany in opera, and gender studies and has spoken on these topics at numerous conferences in Europe and in North America. Her article 'New Music in the Office of Thomas Becket in Trier', forthcoming in Plainsong and Medieval Music, won the 2007 Osgood prize at the University of Oxford, and she has publications (recent and forthcoming) in Eighteenth-Century Music, the Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera, and Musica e Storia, among others. At the University of Toronto she is working a book project, provisionally entitled 'German Opera and Politics: Images of Public Life from the Enlightenment to Napoleon' and a research project investigating the formation of the operatic canon in nineteenth-century Germany.

She has taught topics ranging from medieval motet to twentieth-century music at numerous Oxford colleges, and is offering 'Women in Opera' (2007) and 'Operas of Mozart' (2008) at the University of Toronto.