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Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of German Studies, Medieval Studies, and Music at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1973, having served as Director of Medieval Studies from 1974-86 and Chair of German Studies from 1986-91 and 1996-99. Co-editor of Reading Opera (Princeton, 1988) and co-author of Giacomo Puccini: La boh√®me (Cambridge, 1986) and Medieval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation (Toronto, 1988), other publications include Romancing the Grail: Genre, Science, and Quest in Wolfram’s Parzival (Cornell, 1995), Madama Butterfly 1904-2004: Fonti e documenti (Lucca, 2005), five edited volumes, and numerous articles on medieval literature, the Age of Goethe, and German and Italian opera. Founding co-editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal, he is also general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Opera and co-editor of Transatlantische Studien, a monograph series on medieval and early modern culture. A co-founder and vice president of the Centro studi Giacomo Puccini in Lucca, Italy, he is editor of Studi pucciniani