She is a specialist in the musical culture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and her research focuses on the history of orchestration, instrumentality and aesthetics, exploring the intersections between music, science and technology. She has published articles in Current Musicology, Eighteenth-Century Music, Studia Musicologica, Popular Music, Opera Quarterly and 19th-Century Music. Dolan has been a member of the Penn Humanities forum and was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in 2009-10.show more